When they part at the prison entrance, Nirrim won't let that be goodbye. That claim is proven when they both get released from prison early after Sid calls in a favor. Sid claims to be a traveler who hobnobs with the High Kith (upper class). She's arrested and sent to prison anyway, and is held in a cell across from a mysterious and flirty stranger named Sid. Suddenly, Nirrim knows what a danger it is to possess the bird and decides to hand it in. A soldier tries to pull her down and she kicks him until he falls to his death. Nirrim is the one to spot it one night and climbs up a building to get it. When an Elysium bird is seen swooping over the neighborhood, all the Half-Kith want to claim it. In THE MIDNIGHT LIE, Nirrim lives behind the wall of her Half-Kith (lower class) Ward baking bread and forging passports for her caretaker, who runs a brisk business helping others escape the misery of the Ward. At first she seeks the safety and familiarity of the Ward's wall, and then she opens her eyes to a wider world and is suddenly determined to know her country's cruel secrets at any cost to herself.
Readers will be impressed by Nirrim's strength that slowly builds throughout The Midnight Lie. Parties and get-togethers in high society always include mood-altering drugs, but this experience isn't looked upon favorably. Nirrim's love interest is also much talked about in high society for her conquests. Other mature content includes sexual relationships, straight and same-sex, with kissing, undressing, and lots of longing described. She also experiences emotional abuse and manipulation by a caretaker who eventually burns her face in anger.
She goes to prison and gives daily tithes of blood (common for the lower classes - some have lost limbs or eyes or have been raped). She kicks a guard off the side of a building, causing his death. The main character, Nirrim, is Half-Kith, or low class, and lives in the Ward behind a wall with her kind. Parents need to know that The Midnight Lie is an LGBTQ fantasy-romance set in the world of author Marie Rutkoski's bestselling Winner's Trilogy, but on a forgotten island where there are strict rules about class and no one knows why they exist.
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