The Jewel (The Lone City Trilogy, #1)

by Amy Ewing

[wyvernfriend]

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.