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->Nothing about me resembled a pink-haired doll with a jewel in its stomach or a creepy little monster that lived under a bridge. Admittedly, I was kind of short, but Finn was at least six feet tall.
->"You're thinking of trolls the way they've been misrepresented, obviously," Finn hurried to explain. "That's why we prefer Trylle. You don't get any of that silly 'Billy Goats Gruff' imagery. But now I have you staring at me like I have totally lost my mind."
->-''Switched''

The Trylle Trilogy is a fantasy book series by American author Amanda Hocking. It follows the story of Wendy Everly, an almost eighteen-year-old teenaged girl who lives with her aunt Maggie and brother Matt. She recounts her sixth birthday party, when her less-than-stable mother grows convinced that Wendy stole the baby she gave birth to, and proceeds to attempt to kill her.

We then cut back to the present day, where Wendy has forced both her aunt Maggie and Matt to uproot their lives and move when she is again kicked out of school. She begins to be disturbed by the also-new student Finn Holmes who constantly watches her, emotionless and unaware. Wendy ponders on her secret skill; she's always known that, ever since she was little, she has always had the ability to make a person act however she wanted merely by thinking a command. Wendy begins to think her mother might have been onto something.

With the help of Finn Holmes, Wendy finds herself in a world she never knew existed - a world both beautiful and frightening, and Wendy's not sure she wants to be a part of it.

Books in the series:
* ''Switched'', 2010
* ''Torn'', 2010
* ''Ascend'', 2011
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!!Contains examples of:
* AbusiveParents: "She [[AxCrazy lunged at me]], screaming at me to tell her what I did with her real baby."
* AgeAppropriateAngst
* AllTrollsAreDifferent: The Trylle, Vittra, Trackers, and [[spoiler: Vittra hobgoblins]].
* AlwaysSaveTheGirl: Finn to Wendy. Mostly because she's [[spoiler: the princess and he's pretty much a bodyguard to the royal family]]. She does seem like she's sort of capable what with [[spoiler: stabbing Jen and leaping on his back when they're hundreds of feet off the ground.]]
* ArrangedMarriage: [[spoiler: Loki and the Vittra Queen Sara were engaged when Loki was just a kid, before Oren took an interest in Sara.]]
** Elora and [[spoiler: Oren]]
** [[spoiler: Wendy and Tove]]
* AuraVision: Tove
* AxCrazy: Kim Everly, Wendy's [[spoiler: host]] mom.
* [[spoiler: BabiesEverAfter]]: [[spoiler: Wendy and Loki]].
* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler: Loki]]
* BattleCouple: Wendy and Finn, Wendy and Tove, and Wendy and [[spoiler: Loki]]
* BlessedWithSuck[=/=]CursedWithAwesome: The powers the Trylle possess drain their energy and eventually [[spoiler: accelerated aging]].
* {{Brainwashed}}: Loki has the ability to do this to a person. [[spoiler: He starts to do it to Wendy in ''Torn'', but stops, saying that he wants her to ''want'' to leave with him.]]
* BrattyTeenageDaughter: Wendy is portrayed thus as she, as a Trylle, simply does not fit into human society. 
* BrownEyes: The Trylle have very earthy coloration. Most of the main Trylle cast has brown eyes, including Wendy and Finn.
* ChangelingTale
* CharmPerson: Wendy with her persuasion.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Tove often falls into this category, since he can sense when others use their powers and their auras.
* ComingOfAgeStory
* CompellingVoice: Several Trylle have this ability, however, it only works on trackers or humans.
* DatingDoSiDo: Wendy and Willa seem to switch the objects of their affection pretty easily.
* DawsonCasting: In-universe example. The Trackers pose as high school seniors to get close to the changelings in order to bring them back to Forening. [[spoiler: Duncan]] in ''Torn'' is 27.
* DefrostingIceQueen: It's said that the only person that Elora ever really loved was [[spoiler: Thomas Holmes, Finn's father]]. She's later defrosted further by Wendy.
** Less extreme example with [[spoiler: Matt and Willa]].
* [[spoiler: DisneyDeath]]: [[spoiler: Loki]]
* DoesNotLikeShoes: The Trylle do ''not'' like wearing shoes. Ever. Even at the fanciest of balls, you can bet that everyone will be bare foot.
* DreamingOfThingsToCome: Elora has the power of precognition, yet can only use her power by painting the future scene.
* DysfunctionalFamily: Wendy's father died when she was young, her mother went crazy and tried to kill her when she was six and her brother [[spoiler: is not her biological brother.]]
* DysfunctionJunction: Find a normal, functioning character who ''isn't'' breaking some sort of rule, law, or standard.
* ElementalPowers: Some Trylle can control certain elements, like Willa who can control the wind and her mother, who could control the clouds. Finn says the reason for the bipolar weather was because of the Trylle messing with their powers.
* FeudingFamilies: The Trylle and the Vittra. There's even a chapter in ''Torn'' where the two are compared to the Montagues and Capulets.
* GratuitousForeignLanguage: The Trylle words seem to be Swedish. They call the changeling human children mänsklig ("human"), the village where the Trylle live is called Förening ("compound"), the village where the Vittra trolls love is Ondarike ("evil empire/kingdom"), and the royalty titles include Markis and Markisinna ("Marquis" and "Marchioness"). 
* GreenEyes: Tove has mossy green eyes.
* HealingFactor: Those decended from the Vittra. Especially [[spoiler: Oren]].
* HealingHands: Aurora Kroner and [[spoiler: Sara]].
* HowDoIShotWeb: Wendy takes a while to learn how to use her psychic abilities.
* HypnoticEyes: Loki's power, which he inherited from his father.
* IJustWantToBeNormal: Wendy
* JediMindTrick: Persuasion. Lampshaded by Rhys in Torn.
--> '''Rhys''': Aren't you just gonna Star Wars them? When Obi-Wan's like, 'These aren't the droids you're looking for.'
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: The Chancellor and Elora]]
* LethalChef: Rhys, who manages to simultaneously burn and drown the stirfry he makes for Wendy when she first arrives in Forening. 
* LongLostRelative: Rhys to Matt
* LoveDodecahedron: So much. ''So'' much.
* [[spoiler: LukeIAmYourFather]]: [[spoiler: Wendy's biological father turns out to be the king of the Vittra. Surprise, Wendy!]]
* MysteriousParent: Both [[spoiler: Wendy's adopted father, the husband of Kim, and Wendy's biological father to the point where she worries when Finn tells her that [[BrotherSisterIncest his father had an affair with her mother]]. Thankfully, he tells her that they could not be siblings.]]
* TheNeedsOfTheMany: The reasoning everyone tries to use against Wendy for taking her role as Princess of the Trylle.
** [[spoiler: Also the reason Elora married Oren.]]
* OlderThanTheyLook: The Trackers. Makes sense, seeing as how their job requires them to pose as high school students, but [[spoiler: Wendy's second Tracker, Duncan takes the cake, as he's 27 posing as an 18 year old.]]
* ParentalAbandonment: A practice of the Trylle. Finn replies with, quite simply, "it's what we do".
* PickyEater: The Trylle. Basically, they only eat all-natural, non-processed foods. With Wendy's aunt and brother, it's to the point where they can't even cook for her anymore.
* PsychicBlockDefense: Many trolls can do this, and Wendy does this unconsciously several times.
* PsychicNosebleed
* PsychicPowers: Several.
** {{Seer}}: Elora can paint pictures of future events, however, she doesn't know the context of the events.
** {{Telepathy}}: Tove, Elora, and Wendy can communicate mentally with others. Tove can hear everyone's thoughts, all the time. 
** MindOverMatter: They can also move things with their minds.
* RapidAging: Using their powers causes the Trylle to age much faster than normal.
* RebelliousPrincess: Wendy pretty much tires to piss Elora off. She's even called this by [[spoiler: Loki]] in ''Torn''.
* RichBitch: Willa. She's pretty much a bitch to everyone, especially the manskligs and Trackers. She does genuinely care about Wendy, though.
* RoyalBlood: Wendy comes from a long line of royal Trylle [[spoiler: and Vittra]], which is why she has so many awesome powers.
* SecondLove: [[spoiler: Loki for Wendy]]
* SecretlyWealthy: Even ''Wendy'' doesn't know how much money her family really has, thinking that her mother's hospital bills and their constant moving has eaten away at their fortune. [[spoiler: Turns out, they've been living far below their means.]]
* SexyMentor: Finn and Tove are both described as being "foxy" by Wendy on more than one occasion.
* SuddenlySexuality: [[spoiler: Tove is gay.]]
* SwitchedAtBirth: All Trylle babies are switched with human children so that they can bring back trust fund money when they're 18.
* TeensAreMonsters: [[IncrediblyLamePun Literally]].
* TotallyRadical: What kind of modern-day teenage girl refers to every good looking guy as ''foxy''?
* TheUnfavorite: Kim much prefers Matt and the son Michael she didn't even know to Wendy, even telling her to "leave Michael alone" as he is a "good boy".
** Rhys is also disliked by Elora because he is a Manksling, or human.
* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: Poor Tove. He has to use his powers in order to focus and keep from going insane, but using his powers too much causes outburst of insanity.
* YoungerThanTheyLook: Elora. When Wendy first meets her, she appears to be around 50. We find out in ''Torn'' that she's actually only 39. [[spoiler: She dies of old age by the end of ''Ascend''.]] Using her powers caused her age prematurely.

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30th Nov '12 7:27:06 AM Oreochan

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Adult Child has been renamed to One Of The Kids per this TRS thread