A review by triscuit807
The Jewel and Her Lapidary by Fran Wilde

4.0

Fran Wilde won last year's Andre Norton Award with her first novel "Updraft", a book I enjoyed, but I felt the coming of age story had been done before (with dragons and Companions). This time around, her novelette has a truly original world, but the story is an old one...of madness, betrayal, murder, and self-sacrifice. I found the subservience/slavery of the Lapidaries to their Jewels disturbing, although I think Wilde meant it as interdependence. I read this as part of my 2017 Hugo Reading and it fulfills my 2017 Reading Challenge "read a book where one of the main characters is royalty" (Read 52).