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  • They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character:
    • Matt's biological and Wendy's host father is said to have been a good man who committed suicide when Wendy was a toddler, but we don't get very many details about his relationships with his wife, sister, or children. We don't even get a first name or learn how he committed suicide, let alone what motivated him to do it.
    • Maggie Everly raised Matt and Wendy after Kim was committed but she's barely seen or mentioned in the last two books. She does make an appearance in the epilogue though.
    • Aurora Kroner mentions in the first book that Tove has a sister that they're expecting to come back in the spring, but nowhere in the trilogy is she seen or mentioned.
    • In the bonus material in the printed books, it's revealed that there are trolls in other villages that have gills and ones that can change their appearance to blend in with their surroundings, as well as traditional ugly, temperamental trolls. They are never brought up or explored in the actual story.
  • They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot:
    • Not once in the trilogy does Wendy or Matt ask if things would have turned out differently for their family if Wendy and Rhys were never switched (specifically if Kim would have violently lashed out and been committed or not)
    • This somewhat overlaps with They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character,as listed above, but there's also no mention if Kim was ever the least bit normal or loving prior to Wendy and Rhys' switch putting her over the edge, or if she was clinically self-absorbed and the switch was the straw that broke the camels back. Maggie knew Kim longer than Matt or Wendy, and Matt was old enough to remember what Kim was like before Wendy came home with them, but neither shed any details on who Kim was before then.
      • Considering that Matt has no positive opinion of Kim, her actions during the first six years of Wendy's life could be seen as narcissism because Wendy wasn't the child Kim wanted and was promised.
      • However, at the end of the trilogy, Matt does take Rhys to visit Kim where she's institutionalized and there's a noticeable change in her demeanor. Wendy even thinks she might get well enough to be released one day.

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