![]() "She is in fact somebody who looks a lot like 'The Rake' archetype from a romance novel. "This woman is not somebody who sticks around," Rutkoski tells Bustle. Along the way, Nirrim finds herself questioning everything - including her growing romantic feelings for another woman, a relationship that is illegal for her Kith. But to do so, she'll have to place her trust in Sid, who asks, above all, not to be trusted. But when Nirrim encounters Sid, a rakish traveler who tells her that the High Kith might possess magic, Nirrim decides to seek that magic for herself. ![]() People of Nirrim's low status keep their heads down, or risk their lives. A harsh tribunal rules and insures that society's pleasures - everything from brightly colored clothing to certain fruits - are reserved for the High Kith. Set two decades after the events of The Winner's Kiss, the new book follows Nirrim, a Half Kith woman (according to Rutkoski, the term "kith" is synonymous in this book with "class" or "kind") who lives in the Ward, a grim and punishing city kept behind a wall. ![]() ![]() Bustle has the exclusive cover reveal and an interview with Rutkoski below. Now, on March 3, 2020, Rutkoski will return to the universe of her beloved trilogy in The Midnight Lie. When Marie Rutkoski's Winner's Trilogy came to a close in 2016 with The Winner's Kiss, fans were already clamoring for more from the YA fantasy author. ![]()
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