There is one character that’s an easily spotted tie-in to the original series, but it doesn’t affect the plot at all. Think the original Shadow and Bone trilogy versus the Six of Crows duology– The other parts of the universe are acknowledged, but they’re not the focus. The Midnight Lie is set in the same world as The Winner’s Curse series, but the world we knew in the previous trilogy and the world presented in this novel don’t intersect heavily. Sid ropes Nirrim into her quest to find magic, but their research will open up Nirrim’s world in ways she never expected. But everything changes when Nirrim meets Sid, a sly and charming outlier who thinks she’s figured out the secret to the Kith system: She believes there’s magic on this isolated island nation. Nirrim has never dreamed of life outside The Ward and uses her few connections to try to better the lives of others, at great personal risk. The Half-Kith live under the burden of extreme restriction while all of their work supports the elite known as the High Kith. Nirrim is Half-Kith, the lowest ranking member of her society that lives separated in a community known as The Ward. There’s a lot of chaos happening in the world right now, but there’s still one big reason to sit back and rejoice: There are still a lot of great books coming out, including Marie Rutkoski’s fascinating new LGBTQ fantasy, The Midnight Lie!
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