{"id":12232,"date":"2021-05-13T06:00:49","date_gmt":"2021-05-13T10:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/?p=12232"},"modified":"2021-05-11T16:38:52","modified_gmt":"2021-05-11T20:38:52","slug":"blog-tour-the-midnight-lie-by-marie-rutkoski-excerpt-giveaway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/blog-tour-the-midnight-lie-by-marie-rutkoski-excerpt-giveaway\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog Tour: The Midnight Lie by Marie Rutkoski (Excerpt + Giveaway!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ubb-blog-tour-banner\"><a href=\"http:\/\/xpressobooktours.com\/2021\/02\/03\/blitz-sign-up-the-midnight-lie-by-marie-rutkoski\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/TheMidnightLieBlitzBanner-copy.png\" alt=\"Blog Tour: The Midnight Lie by Marie Rutkoski (Excerpt + Giveaway!)\"><\/a><\/p><p>Happy Thursday and welcome to my stop on the blog tour for THE MIDNIGHT LIE by Marie Rutkoski! I\u2019m so excited because today I have an excerpt of the book to share with you! This book is truly amazing and I\u2019m so so excited to for you to find out more about it, PLUS enter for a chance to win a print copy!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11090\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/003-purple-flowers-divider.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"850\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/003-purple-flowers-divider.png 850w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/003-purple-flowers-divider-300x18.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/003-purple-flowers-divider-768x45.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/the-midnight-lie-cover.png\" alt=\"Blog Tour: The Midnight Lie by Marie Rutkoski (Excerpt + Giveaway!)\" title=\"Blog Tour: The Midnight Lie by Marie Rutkoski (Excerpt + Giveaway!)\" class=\"ubb-cover-image alignleft\"><strong>The Midnight Lie<\/strong> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/reviews\/authors\/marie-rutkoski\/\">Marie Rutkoski<\/a> <br><strong>Series:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/reviews\/series\/the-midnight-lie\/\">The Midnight Lie #1<\/a> <br><strong>Published on<\/strong>  March 3, 2020 by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/reviews\/publishers\/farrar\/\">Farrar<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/reviews\/publishers\/straus-and-giroux-byr\/\">Straus and Giroux (Byr)<\/a> <br><strong>Genres:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/reviews\/genres\/ya\/\">YA<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/reviews\/genres\/fantasy\/\">Fantasy<\/a> <br><strong>Pages:<\/strong> 358 <br><strong>Add to <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/34460349-the-midnight-lie\" target=\"_blank\">Goodreads<\/a> <br><strong>Author Links:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/marierutkoski.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Website<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/marierutkoski\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Twitter<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MarieRutkoskiYA\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/1238111.Marie_Rutkoski\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Goodreads<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/marierutkoski\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Instagram<\/a> <br><blockquote class=\"ubb-synopsis\"><p>Where Nirrim lives, crime abounds, a harsh tribunal rules, and society\u2019s pleasures are reserved for the High Kith. Life in the Ward is grim and punishing. People of her low status are forbidden from sampling sweets or wearing colors. You either follow the rules, or pay a tithe and suffer the consequences.<br \/>\nNirrim keeps her head down and a dangerous secret close to her chest.<br \/>\nBut then she encounters Sid, a rakish traveler from far away who whispers rumors that the High Caste possesses magic. Sid tempts Nirrim to seek that magic for herself. But to do that, Nirrim must surrender her old life. She must place her trust in this sly stranger who asks, above all, not to be trusted.<br \/>\nSet in the world of the New York Times\u2013bestselling Winner\u2019s Trilogy, beloved author Marie Rutkoski returns with an epic LGBTQ romantic fantasy about learning to free ourselves from the lies others tell us\u2014and the lies we tell ourselves.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\t\t<script type=\"application\/ld+json\">\n{\n\t\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\n\t\"@type\":\"Review\",\n\t\"datePublished\": \"2021-05-13T10:00:49+00:00\",\n\t\"description\": \"Happy Thursday and welcome to my stop on the blog tour for THE MIDNIGHT LIE by Marie Rutkoski! I\\u2019m so excited because today I have an excerpt of the book to share with you! 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I startled out of sleep, shaking my wrist hard, sure that I had been seen, I had been caught, a soldier was slipping a manacle onto my wrist. But the prickle disappeared, air beat against my face, and what I saw was not uniformed men but the Elysium bird launching itself from my wrist. It hovered for a moment in front of me before sweeping away.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It landed a few feet from me. It scratched the plastered roof, oddly chickenlike for such a glamorous bird, wings tucked close to its body. Now that I was so close, I could see streaks of green on its belly, speckles of pink on its breast, the black thorn of its beak, the tips of white on its red wings. It sang.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cShh,\u201d I said, which was foolish\u2014what bird obeyed a person?\u2014but it stopped midsong. I reached into my pocket for the seeds\u2014Aden\u2019s <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">seeds. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mine<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, I remembered the bird singing. It felt not like it belonged to me, but that it was telling me that I belonged to it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I scattered the seeds across the roof.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It pecked its way toward me, head tipping left and right, tail dipping, luxuriant feathers drifting behind it like the train of an iridescent dress. It ate the seeds, husks splitting beneath its beak and dropping to the roof. The moon was high and bright. I wanted desperately for this bird to be mine no matter what it could do for me, no matter if the stories were real, if only so that I could see it in full light and know its patterns and colors, to know it so intimately that I would see its details even when I closed my eyes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It flitted closer, then landed on my knee.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You can\u2019t catch an Elysium bird, I had told Aden. Had anyone ever heard of an Elysium behaving like this?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Maybe it was because it was trained and had been raised from its shell.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Maybe hunger had overwhelmed it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Whatever reason it had decided not to fear me, I couldn\u2019t question the peace that spread from where it perched upon my knee, drifting down my leg and up into my stomach, stealing over my chest. I dipped my fist into the coat pocket again and offered an open handful of seed. It jumped to the heel of my hand, feathers curling over my wrist, caressing my upper arm. It ate.The beak gently jabbed the palm of my hand, a tender little needle.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What are you? I wondered as I studied it. What are you, really? What am I, that you chose to come to me?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Its body was only slightly larger than my hand but its tail floated long, the tip of it almost to my\u00a0 elbow. It warbled: a bubbling sound.\u00a0 I stroked its head and it allowed this, leaning into my touch. When it burbled its low music again, I stroked its throat. Beneath its feathers was a light vibration, like a purr.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I realized then what anybody in the Ward should have realized. I couldn\u2019t keep this bird.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It wasn\u2019t possible to hide such a secret. Everyone in the tavern would learn, and then it would be only a matter of time before the Ward did, and before people began to wonder whether the death of a soldier on the day the bird flew into the Ward had something to do with me. It would be only a matter of time before the militia learned who had the bird. Then they would come for me, if not for the crime of murder, then for the crime of stealing a High-Kith pet. When the Council could sentence you to years in prison for dressing like a High-Kith lady, what would it do to someone from the Ward who had kept an Elysium?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The bird nosed among the seeds, looking for its favorites, which were slender black ovals.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The only way to keep it, I thought, was to kill it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If I were to wring its neck, I could sell the feathers. I could see whether the stories about its meat were true. Its hollow bones.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A dead Elysium bird held so much value. It could be parceled out secretly and slowly. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, perhaps, could be kept hidden when a living thing\u2014with its song, its rustlings, its need for food and water, its excretions\u2014could not.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The bird looked at me. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mine<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, it sang, and I was so startled that my hand sagged and the bird floated up, wings stuttering. But it settled back into my palm.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It would be easy to snap its fragile neck. I had <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">just killed someone. The murder of a bird would be nothing by comparison. And there was so much to gain.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A treasure, Raven would say when I showed her the limp corpse, its feathers as bright as a bouquet. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">treasure, she would call me.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Who knew what comforts we could bring into our home through the sale of the birds\u2019 parts?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Who knew how many Half Kith we could save, with extra money to buy what we needed to make passports?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But the bird nestled into my palm, its feathers a warm cloud, its happiness thrumming into my skin. I had never felt or seen anything so beautiful, and it was only then that I realized how starved I had been for beauty. Its liquid green eyes studied me.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A thought came so slowly that it reminded me of Annin building a tower out of playing cards: the precision and care, the light touch, the slight shake of her hand lowering a card into place.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Elysium closed its eyes and sighed. It grew heavy with sleep.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I could keep the bird, I thought, if I left the Ward. If I forged a passport for myself. If I went beyond the wall, beyond the city.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fear flooded me. I couldn\u2019t kill the bird. But I also couldn\u2019t leave behind everything I knew.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I slipped the embroidered bread bag from my pocket.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I clamped the sleeping bird\u2019s wings to its body, and thrust it into the sack.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When I was certain that no one was passing in the alley below, I climbed down a gutter pipe, the jerking, squawking bag swaying from my wrist by its drawstring.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Moonlight painted the street. The alley was a quiet, bright river.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I walked until I spotted a pair of soldiers. Dread pulsed inside me, but I couldn\u2019t keep the bird and I couldn\u2019t kill it. It must be returned. I had to hope that the militia would be so distracted by the Elysium that they wouldn\u2019t think to link me to the soldier\u2019s broken body\u2014which, after all, would surely look like a mere accident, especially with the fallen gutter pipe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cHere,\u201d I said to the soldiers, holding out the bag. I remembered Helin holding out the apple and asking to be my friend.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One of them, staring, took the jolting bag. \u201cIs that the Elysium?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The other soldier seized my arm.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cBut I\u2019m turning it in.\u201d Panic darted up my throat. \u201cTo be brought back to its owner.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The soldier dragged my other arm behind me. \u201cIt\u2019s unharmed!\u201d I said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I was arrested anyway.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Copyright \u00a9 2021 by Marie Rutkoski<\/b><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11090\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/003-purple-flowers-divider.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"850\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/003-purple-flowers-divider.png 850w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/003-purple-flowers-divider-300x18.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/003-purple-flowers-divider-768x45.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11248\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Enter-the-Giveaway-Spring-2021-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Enter-the-Giveaway-Spring-2021-1.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Enter-the-Giveaway-Spring-2021-1-300x59.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Enter-the-Giveaway-Spring-2021-1-768x150.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rafflecopter.com\/rafl\/display\/d04251234280\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Enter here to win a print copy of THE MIDNIGHT LIE by Marie Rutkoski!<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>(International)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11090\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/003-purple-flowers-divider.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"850\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/003-purple-flowers-divider.png 850w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/003-purple-flowers-divider-300x18.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/003-purple-flowers-divider-768x45.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11250\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/About-the-Author-Spring-2021-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/About-the-Author-Spring-2021-1.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/About-the-Author-Spring-2021-1-300x59.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/About-the-Author-Spring-2021-1-768x150.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"ubb-about-author\"><h3>About Marie Rutkoski<\/h3><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Marie-342x350.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignleft ubb-about-author-photo\"><p>Marie Rutkoski is the New York Times bestselling author of several books for children and young adults, including The Winner's Curse. She holds a BA from The University of Iowa and a PhD from Harvard University. She is a professor of English literature at Brooklyn College and lives in Brooklyn with her two sons and two cats. Her most recent book is The Midnight Lie, which will be published in March 2020.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ubb-author-links\"><a href=\"http:\/\/marierutkoski.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Website<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/marierutkoski\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Twitter<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MarieRutkoskiYA\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Facebook<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/1238111.Marie_Rutkoski\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Goodreads<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/marierutkoski\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Instagram<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11090\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #000000; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; text-transform: none;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/003-purple-flowers-divider.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"850\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/003-purple-flowers-divider.png 850w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/003-purple-flowers-divider-300x18.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/003-purple-flowers-divider-768x45.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11244\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Questions-and-Answers-Spring-2021-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Questions-and-Answers-Spring-2021-1.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Questions-and-Answers-Spring-2021-1-300x59.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Questions-and-Answers-Spring-2021-1-768x150.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>What do you think about <em>The Midnight Lie<\/em>? Have you added it to your tbr yet? Let me know in the comments and have a splendiferous day!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11167\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Well-Wishes-Candy-Fishes-Kait-Spring-2021-001.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Well-Wishes-Candy-Fishes-Kait-Spring-2021-001.png 600w, https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Well-Wishes-Candy-Fishes-Kait-Spring-2021-001-300x160.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Thursday and welcome to my stop on the blog tour for THE MIDNIGHT LIE by Marie Rutkoski! I\u2019m so excited because today I have an excerpt of the book to share with you! 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