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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