Review: The Lost City

The Lost City by Amanda Hocking
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Ulla has always wanted to know where she is from.  Since she was abandoned as a baby and raised by strangers, she has very limited clues to help her in her search.  Her greatest chance to find her mother and information about her family comes when she is accepted into an internship program at the Mimirin.  She will work for free for most of the day and have the opportunity to search their archives after her shift for personal research.  She learns early on that there is a chance her mother is connected to the Omte royal family.  Some may feel that is a good thing, but since the royal family is very private, Ulla finds her research blocked at every turn.  Will Ulla find out anything about the mother that left her behind?  What distractions will she need to overcome during her search?

The Lost City is the first book in the Omte Origins series.  This is a companion series to the Trylle series, yet readers can fully enjoy this story whether they have read the other two series or not.  Hocking has taken the world she has already built in the previous stories and captured a new storyline that is easy to love.  This story kept me pulled inside the entire time and I can’t wait for the next book, The Morning Flower, set to be released in August 2020.

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