Amanda Hocking
Tor
Otago Daily Times, December 24th 2011
The first in a trilogy (with the next two volumes to be published within months) Switched by Amanda Hocking is adolescent wish-fulfilment, pure and simple.
All her life Wendy Every has never fitted in. Then, just before her 18th birthday the mysterious and charismatic boy Finn arrives to tell her the truth: she really a faerie princess from a tribe known as the Trylle, swapped at birth for a human child in order to benefit from the financial and educational resources provided by her hosts.
Now she is is ready to return to her rightful place, but Wendy feels no more part of this new, opulent life than she did in her old one. Everything she does or feels, from her friendship with the manskling Rhys to her increasing attraction to the enigmatic Finn, transgress the rules of Trylle society, and she longs to return to her human family.
Like Stephanie Meyer, Hocking has hit on a formula that is likely to entrance teenage girls everywhere. It almost makes me wish I were 16 again.
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