The Jewel by Amy Ewing

The Jewel (The Lone City Trilogy, #1)

by Amy Ewing

Violet, a poor girl from the outer city, finds forbidden romance and uncovers brutal secrets when, after three years of training, she is purchased by a royal family as a surrogate mother for royal children.

Violet, a poor girl from the outer city, uncovers brutal secrets when, after three years of training, she is purchased by a royal family as a surrogate mother for royal children. The plot contains sexual references and violence. Book #1

Reviewed by wyvernfriend on

3 of 5 stars

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Has a mountain to climb because of the Handmaid's Tale and it doesn't deal with enough of the questions, the why of this world, the how it came about and why people put up with it. It's not a bad read but it has a problem with the comparisons to works that came before.

Violet is going to be a surrogate, trained and taken from her family to become an anonymous lot, to become pregnant for some women who can't. The Upper class in this world are unable to conceive and this is their solution. Add in some psionics and you have a complicated situation.

Now how come the surrogates didn't realise, ever, that if you can mess with life you can kill... or you can manipulate those trying to manipulate you. They also should teach them more about self-control. Then again this book made me think more about writing and about what I would do with the story than about the story itself.

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