Published by: HarperTeen, September 2nd 2014
Genre: YA, Fantasy?, Dystopia? (Not honestly certain)
Pages: 358
Format: Ebook
Source: HarperTeen, via Edelweiss
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.
From the get go, The Jewel and I weren't really well matched. It seemed to take an entire day to read just 10% of it, and it was slower and longer from there on. Maybe all I read was the build up and I should have given it a bigger chance to get started, but nothing about it gripped me in the first 70 pages and a lot of it made me frustrated and fed up.
DNF at 20%
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