Here are links to my reviews of books 1 and 2, Switched and Torn.Wendy Everly is facing an impossible choice. The only way to save the Trylle from their deadliest enemy is by sacrificing herself. If she doesn’t surrender to the Vittra, her people will be thrust into a brutal war against an unbeatable foe. But how can Wendy leave all her friends behind…even if it’s the only way to save them?
The stakes have never been higher, because her kingdom isn’t the only thing she stands to lose. After falling for both Finn and Loki, she’s about to make the ultimate choice…who to love forever. One guy has finally proven to be the love of her life—and now all their lives might be coming to an end.
Everything has been leading to this moment. The future of her entire world rests in her hands—if she’s ready to fight for it.
** spoiler alert ** A great end to a great trilogy. At the end of Torn I had no idea how all of Wendy's many problems could be fixed. Her mother was dying, leaving her to take over the management of a kingdom of people who don't really know or like her. She's in love with a tracker, Finn, who she can never be with, and she's sort of being forced to marry her friend Tove who doesn't know that she knows that he's gay. To add to all of her relationship drama, Wendy may or may not have feelings for a troublesome Vittra prince who most definitely has feelings for her. And she found out that her father is evil and wants to take over her kingdom. The situation Wendy is in seemed so bad at the end of Torn that I was surprised by Ascend's happy ending. Now, in Ascend, the story picks up right where Torn left it. Wendy is acting as queen and is about to marry Tove. Finn is being his usual annoying self and Willa and Matt's relationship is still secret. And then, Loki shows up all of a sudden practically dying from wounds inflicted on him by Oren, Wendy's dad and the Vittra king, as punishment for not bringing Wendy back with him. So all of Wendy's confusion gets ten times bigger because she's drawn to Loki but marrying Tove and unsure where she and Finn stand. However, an even bigger life-altering choice she has to make is whether she will surrender her kingdom to Oren, because she knows he will not stop killing her people until she does.
I was happy when Wendy chose Loki. I always thought her relationship with Finn was one-sided, with Wendy throwing herself into it wholeheartedly and Finn going along with the beautiful girl declaring her love for him. He cared about her, obviously, but as she pointed out, not enough to fight for her. Loki, on the other hand almost gave up his life for her and was even tortured while trying to protect her. That's either love or insanity. Amanda Hocking decided it was love.
One thing that bothered me about the ending was the whole pregnancy thing. Wouldn't everyone be furious that Wendy cheated on her first husband with the man who is now her second, got pregnant by him, and married him at 4 or 5 months pregnant? If I was a citizen in Trylle I would be furious with my queen's discretion. It's one thing for a normal person to do what she did, but it's another for a queen. She's like a younger, prettier, female, royal version of Bill Clinton.
5 stars.
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