![]() ![]() She resides in the Ward, a walled off section of the island she lives on, where the poor and “unworthy” Half-Kith are forced to live. Throughout the book, we are following Nirrim, a nineteen year old bread maker who often experiences strange hallucinations around the city and has a difficult time distinguishing reality. I definitely got some Hunger Games and Caraval vibes in certain parts of the story here. ![]() So I was not aware going into this story that it was set in the same world as the Winner’s Trilogy, but it is! It is a completely different setting, however, and the connections to the Winner’s Trilogy do not come to light until near the end of the book. Overall, a very nice start to a new duology and I gave it 3 stars. While I did really enjoy this story, it’s LGBTQ+ romance, and the author’s writing, there were a few things that I felt were just a bit lacking. When I won an ARC of The Midnight Lie, I was ecstatic! I knew I had to read it right away. My first Goodreads giveaway win!! Heck yeah! I was so super excited for this book when I first heard about it, because the author’s Winner’s Trilogy is one of my all-time favorite YA fantasy series. I wondered what kind of night was so precious that when morning came it felt as if you had been robbed, as if what you wanted most had been cut from you like a bloody tithe. “ I started to turn from the poems, then paused before a page almost entirely white, with only a few bare black words. ![]()
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