Week 19 Reviews: The Lost City, The Morning Flower

From Goodreads:
New York Times bestselling author Amanda Hocking returns to the magical world of the Trylle with The Lost City, the first book in the final Trylle arc.

Nestled along the bluffs of the forested coast lays the secret kingdom of the Omte—a realm filled with wonder...and as many secrets.

Ulla Tulin was left abandoned in an isolated Kanin city as a baby, taken in by strangers and raised hidden away like many of the trolls of mixed blood. Even knowing this truth, she's never stopped wondering about her family.

When Ulla is offered an internship working alongside the handsome Pan Soriano at the Mimirin, a prestigious institution, she jumps at the chance to use this opportunity to hopefully find her parents. All she wants is to focus on her job and the search for her parents, but all of her attempts to find them are blocked when she learns her mother may be connected to the Omte royal family.

With little progress made, Ulla and Pan soon find themselves wrapped up in helping Eliana, an amnestic girl with abilities unlike any they have ever seen before—a girl who seems to be running from something. To figure out who she is they must leave the city, and possibly, along the way, they may learn more about Ulla's parents. 

From Goodreads:
New York Times bestselling author Amanda Hocking returns to the magical world of the Trylle with The Morning Flower, the second book in the Omte Origins arc.

Nestled along the bluffs of the forested coast lays the secret kingdom of the Omte—a realm filled with wonder... and as many secrets.

When Ulla Tulin took her internship at the Mimirin, the only mystery she thought she'd have to solve was that of her birth parents. After a girl named Eliana gets kidnapped while in her care, Ulla knows she has to find out the truth of who Eliana really is—and the only way to do that means traveling to the Omte capital, the place she suspects her mother is from.


Ulla didn't expect that when she arrived she would discover the identity of a Skojare man who crossed paths with her mother—a man who could very well be her father. When the head of the Mimirin learns Ulla's father is connected to the Älvolk, a secret society who believes they were tasked with protecting the First City and the only ones who know its location, he sends Ulla and Pan to Sweden where they find him living among the Älvolk. But all is not what it seems with the Älvolk and their urgent quest to find the Lost Bridge to the First City leaves Ulla feeling uneasy—and possibly in danger.

My Review:
Wow, it was so great to read these books! This is the last series in the troll world, and it's really delving into their history, and I enjoyed reading them both so much! We had a lot of big reveals, and there was one big surprise one that I'm not sure about, and neither are the characters, and I hope that we learn more, if it's right or wrong!

So we were introduced to Ulla in Crystal Kingdom, and I really enjoyed getting to know her more, meeting Pan, and watching their relationship bloom. And also dealing with Eliana and her internship, and trying to find out about her parents, there was a lot going on, and we learned a blot.

I did have a little bit of confusion, there's a few different a words that aren't in English, that are pretty important to the plot, and keeping them separate and knowing which one was which was a bit of a struggle, but there were definitions in the back, which was great.

That ending of The Morning Flower, it was just so freaking evil! We know what's going to happen, but we have no idea where the next book will start, and how things will go from there! I'm really excited to see how it's all going to end!

Loved reading these books, they were so great, and I'm super pumped for the 3rd and final book!

Author: Amanda Hocking
Series: The Omte Origins #1, 2
Read: May 8th, 8th, 2020
Source: NetGalley
Reason Why: Love her writing and this world, and they're Prequel & Sequel Challenge 2020 Books and WoW Books!
Publisher: Wednesday Books
Expected Publication: July 7th 2020, August 4th 2020

The Lost City:

5/5 Hearts

5/5 Books

5/5 Stars

The Morning Flower:

5/5 Hearts

5/5 Books

5/5 Stars