The Lost City Blog Tour

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Amanda Hocking, the New York Times bestselling author of The Kanin Chronicles, returns to the magical world of the Trylle Trilogy with The Lost City, the first novel in The Omte Origins—and the final story arc in her beloved series.


The storm and the orphan


Twenty years ago, a woman sought safety from the spinning ice and darkness that descended upon a small village. She was given shelter for the night by the local innkeepers but in the morning, she disappeared—leaving behind an infant. Now nineteen, Ulla Tulin is ready to find who abandoned her as a baby or why.


The institution and the quest


Ulla knows the answers to her identity and heritage may be found at the Mimirin where scholars dedicate themselves to chronicling troll history. Granted an internship translating old documents, Ulla starts researching her own family lineage with help from her handsome and charming colleague Pan Soriano.


The runaway and the mystery


But then Ulla meets Eliana, a young girl who no memory of who she is but who possesses otherworldly abilities. When Eliana is pursued and captured by bounty hunters, Ulla and Pan find themselves wrapped up in a dangerous game where folklore and myth become very real and very deadly—but one that could lead Ulla to the answers she’s been looking for.



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The Lost City is a book that gripped me from its beginning. It follows Ulla, a girl who was abandoned in an arctic village with no clue about her biological family, as she gets the opportunity to take part in an exclusive internship at the Mimirin Institute which will allow her to find out more about her past. Right from the beginning of the story the mystery of Ulla's past is introduced to readers and as the story continues, more mysteries are introduced. The book is the first in a trilogy so this was quite a bit of set-up for the rest of the series, and I'm excited to see how everything will unfold.

The book is the first in a new series set in the world of the Trylle. To prepare for reading and reviewing The Lost City, I read the original Trylle trilogy but was unable to get my hands on copies of the Kanin Chronicles books. That being said, I noticed that The Lost City was a book you could easily pick up without having read them: the world was explained well enough and there was a glossary in the back of the book that gave more background knowledge, and characters from the Trylle trilogy were only mentioned rather than playing an active part in The Lost City.

One of my favorite details/tropes in novels is when characters work in archives, I really don't know why, but for some reason I am obsessed with the aesthetic of someone poring over dusty pages for hours on end, and I was excited to see that Ulla's internship consisted of archival work. She was tasked with translating old histories and in turn received access to the archives to be able to find out anything about her family. I really enjoyed reading about the time Ulla spent in the archives, and I wish it would feature a bigger part in the upcoming books than it seems to be.

I also really loved the character of Eliana. She is a mystery unto herself, only having arrived in the city a few days before Ulla, and without any recollection of her life before. She spoke in riddles and she could change her coloring (skin, hair, eyes) at will either for the aesthetic or to camouflage herself to her surroundings in times of danger. We don't find out much about Eliana in The Lost City and I can't wait to see what will be revealed in the later books.

Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Have you read any of the Trylle books? Let me know in the comments below!

Until next time,
Laura


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