Author:Amy Ewing
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: September 2nd, 2014
Series: The Lone City Trilogy #1
How I Served It: Audiobook
How I Got It:Live-brary
Summary:
"The Jewel means wealth. The Jewel means beauty. The Jewel means royalty. But for girls like Violet, the Jewel means servitude. Not just any kind of servitude. Violet, born and raised in the Marsh, has been trained as a surrogate for the royalty—because in the Jewel the only thing more important than opulence is offspring.
Purchased at the surrogacy auction by the Duchess of the Lake and greeted with a slap to the face, Violet (now known only as #197) quickly learns of the brutal truths that lie beneath the Jewel’s glittering facade: the cruelty, backstabbing, and hidden violence that have become the royal way of life.Violet must accept the ugly realities of her existence... and try to stay alive. But then a forbidden romance erupts between Violet and a handsome gentleman hired as a companion to the Duchess’s petulant niece. Though his presence makes life in the Jewel a bit brighter, the consequences of their illicit relationship will cost them both more than they bargained for." -- Goodreads
Review:
Frankly I am so over trilogies. I know I've been saying that for legitimately years now. I know that I still buy and read trilogies in excess despite my insistence that I'm over them but... seriously. I'm over books that don't need to be trilogies being trilogies because Twilight and the Hunger Games were such successes. This book could've been a standalone book. It could've done what ___ did and make a series out of linked standalone books set in the same world. It did not need to take a girl who is not especially fascinating and turn her into the center of a revolution (because clearly, that's what's going to happen). That said, I'll still probably read the sequels.
