The little boy lifted into the air when it hit him in the chest. In the darkness behind my lids, all I can see is the shutter, pulling loose from the green and yellow house. I hold my breath and shut my eyes, begging the wind to leave me alone. The wind rattles the corrugated roof over my latest refuge, a shed behind a tool-and-seed store in a tiny village in the Farm. My head pounds as I shove everything I own-everything I’ve stolen-onto the flat threadbare piece of canvas. For now, it was an OK read.Forty-four years before the start of The Jewel. Now I don't know whether it's a good thing or a bad thing that I haven't got a lot to say about this book, but it was a somewhat interesting read and I suppose it would be interesting to see what comes next from Amy. I found it quite olden and futuristic at the same time, but I like it whatever it is. People need to calm down with comparing every book to another, especially when the book's nothing like it!Īmy, I also commend you for the fact that there was a huge contrast with the futuristic design of the time and yet the completely olden-style auction of girls to carry your babies. The Jewel seems like another one of those books: just another repeat.īut do I think it's anything like The Hunger Games? Well, apart from the fact that the community's divided into sections and people have to do something to suffer with others, it's nothing like The Hunger Games.

I can't walk into a bookshop anymore without finding repeats of The Fault In Our Stars or The Hunger Games.

And she just got introduced to the deathly conditions of the game that is The Jewel.ĭystopia is one of those things that I can't help but wonder whether The Hunger Games introduced and now has something to answer for.

She has no say in the matter, and it's been long determined: each girl takes a test as she enters her teens and if the test proves positive, you spend your next few years away from your family, held but treated well by the royalty, destined to carry a baby of a woman. Violet Lasting is spending her last days as Violet Lasting as in a few days' time, she'll be sold off to a rich woman as a surrogate.

The jewel by amy ewing