Frostfire - the first book in her newest trilogy, the Kanin Chronicles - will be out on January 6, 2015. She has published fifteen novels, including the Hollows and the Watersong series. In between watching cooking shows, chasing around her small menagerie of pets, and drinking too much Red Bull Zero, she writes young adult urban fantasy and paranormal romance.Her New York Times best-selling series the Trylle Trilogy has been optioned for films.

There are a few disturbing images involving the habits and needs of the strange girls who change Gemma involving a little blood and gore.About Author-Amanda Hocking is a lifelong Minnesotan obsessed with Batman and Jim Henson. There are a few occasions of mild and moderate language and a couple of kissing scenes, one that is slightly intense but still not very detailed or long. Hocking has good story ideas and knows how to put together a book (though possibly a little bit formulaically) that will grab and keep attention. I found this new book satisfying and definitely intriguing, and I’ll look forward to reading the sequels to see what happens to Gemma, whose situation seems rather dire at the end of Wake. I haven’t read her other books, but from glancing at one, it seems she is benefiting from having a good editor. Now she’s been picked up by a traditional publisher, and she is able to reach an even larger audience through print. She just wants to be herself and enjoy her new love, but she may be forced to leave her good life behind.Īmanda Hocking has become a best-selling author through self-publishing e-books, most famously her Trylle Trilogy about trolls.

But when the three girls tell her what they’ve done to her, Gemma is right to be nervous.

She still feels like the same girl, but her body has definitely been altered: she is even more of a natural in the water, she’s even prettier, and she’s stronger. Unfortunately, she kind of gets caught in their “net” nonetheless, and one night they change her life completely. But when three mysterious teen girls arrive in her coastal town and odd things start happening, she feels it’s best to steer clear of the perfectly beautiful strangers. She’s pretty, she is a talented swimmer (maybe even Olympics-bound someday), and she’s just starting to fall for the guy next door, Alex, her older sister’s best friend. Sixteen-year-old Gemma can’t really say she “has it all” - her mother is basically out of the picture, and her family doesn’t have much money - but she has a pretty good life.

Wake watersong series