What's the Name of That Book??? discussion
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The Jewel
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SOLVED. YA Fantasy series where a girl in the lowest class in a city separated by class has magic, goes to school for it. Read around 2020. Spoilers.
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The Jewel ?From reviews, it seems to match most of the plot points you remember. The series only has 3 books and it finished in 2016.
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The Jewel (book 1 of the The Lone City series) by Amy Ewing - Emma's find.
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The city is an entire island, shaped in a circle, with class divisions going in rings (outer ring is the poorest class, center-most circle is the royalty). Giant wall around the city and I remember it being pretty isolated. Only girls in the outer ring have magic, and they go to a school where they're trained for it. Using the magic is physically difficult, causes nose bleeds and dizziness. I'm pretty sure the MC has a brother who works in the factory section and a younger sister who she doesn't want to have magic but actually does. Once the girls go to school they get sent away and are never seen from again.
Spoilers ahead and warning for human trafficking:
Once the girls graduate, they get auctioned off to the nobles and royals, where their job is to carry the nobles' and royals' pregnancies and essentially genetically modify the babies. Main character gets bought by a duchess I'm pretty sure, and I think the person sold to the queen gets killed by the queen. MC escapes. Love interest is a boy who I'm pretty sure was sold to essentially a brothel (I remember sex trafficking of boys being a parallel to what happens with the girls) (I think they might have met in the duchess' house and escaped together). After the MC escapes, she gets to an isolated cabin where she finds a woman who also has magic. It turns out that the reason magic is so difficult is because the way it's taught is against its nature, and it should actually be used more to manipulate elements and is rooted in the islands history. Series proceeds to destroy the ways dividing the city.