![]() I picked this book up to read in the airport today as I waited for a flight. The Handmaid’s Tale meets The Other Boleyn Girl in a world where beauty and brutality collide. ![]() She fights to hold on to her own identity and sanity, uncertain of the fate of her friends, isolated and at the mercy of the Duchess. Violet is trapped in a living death, her name and body no longer her own. ![]() Her sole purpose is to produce a healthy heir for the Duchess – a woman Violet fears and despises. Sold for six million diamantes, Violet is now Surrogate of the House of the Lake in the centre of the Lone City, the Jewel. The Jewel is a shocking and compelling new YA series from debut author, Amy Ewing. Not by the cover art, which remains, frankly, the best thing about the book. I knew it was part of a series (called The Lone City), but still, I was ready and excited for The Jewel. ![]() ![]() The blurb reads like a cross between The Selection and the Handmaid’s Tale (which I haven’t read, but let’s say bumped/thumped, since I have read them), with gorgeous, truly gorgeous cover art, and the potential to be a stark and searing portrayal of girls’ bodies used as commodities in exchange for riches and pretty dresses. ![]()
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