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sarahthethoms's review against another edition
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.5
Compared to the first book, the pacing felt inconsistent and the characters were also inconsistent.
cloudberry111's review
dark
emotional
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
whatsbeckyreading's review against another edition
2.0
Rounding up to 3 stars since I read it in one sitting, but that might change.
Edit: in reviewing this book to a friend I already lowered my star rating, oops
Edit: in reviewing this book to a friend I already lowered my star rating, oops
signymarie14's review against another edition
5.0
this will make no sense unless you read this book but it made me immediately want to go home and see my family. beautifully heart felt, well written, and an amazing love story of all kinds.
boo1's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Content Warnings
Minor: Blood, Violence, and Gun violence
mellomorissa's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
books4susie's review
4.0
I loved Marie Rutkoski’s Winner’s trilogy and couldn’t wait to see where the story of their daughter Sid would take her. The second book gave me more information about the lives of Kestrel and Arin and I loved it. With Sid back at home, Nirrim has gone a little power crazy since her deal with the God of Thieves. Once Sid is able to solve her mother’s illness and worked out her perceived differences with her parents, it is up to her to stop the growing threat that Nirrim has become.
This was a satisfactory end to the story but I do hope that the author delves back into this world at a later date.
This was a satisfactory end to the story but I do hope that the author delves back into this world at a later date.
rachcannoli's review
3.0
2.5/5
After having quite literally given her heart to the God of Thieves in MIDNIGHT LIE, Nirrim has declared herself queen and decides to avenge the wrongs done to her people, despite how cruel it may seem. Sid runs home to aid her dying mother only to find out she's not sick as believe, she's being poisoned. As blood is shed and Sid tries to help her country, she hears word of this ruthless queen, but does not know it's Nirrim. Will she be able to help her family, home, and the girl she loves? Or will it be too late?
While MIDNIGHT LIE exists in the world of the WINNER'S CURSE series, but mostly stood on its own, HOLLOW HEART very much does not. While I'm sure it could be read without having read the other series, it would literally spoil everything and paint those main characters not in the best light. While I adored being back with those character, I don't think they were utilized to their best ability in this book, honestly I don't think anything was.
A lot happens for such a short book, but I think that length is one of the issues of this sequel. I'm relieved that Sid was given a POV, it was needed, but honestly it made me dislike her more. While heartless Nirrim was quite interesting, and she still had a lot more emotion than I expected so she was still interesting, Sid was a mewling, hypocritical, petulant brat and far less interesting than the character I believed her to be last book. So much time was spent of her being absolutely horrible to her parents, despite them just wanting to love her, miserable that Nirrim didn't love her, despite how that clearly wasn't true, and whining over self-imposed fates no one asked her to do. It was exhausting. We scrape the surface of her dynamics with her family, but for the most part it was just aggravating rather than really digging deep.
Then the big plot of Nirrim committing atrocities she deemed justified was kind of awesome, I'm not going to lie and I was really interested to see what would happen with Sid returned. But literally everything is fixed up and solved in like less than 50 pages, it was insane. And yet this book was also exceedingly slow moving while also being so short, I cannot wrap my head around it. There were aspects that interested and amused me, but I'm really more left incredibly confused.
I'm super disappointed with this duology. It's not at all what I expected and not in a good way. For someone who created SUCH an interesting series and beautiful love story, I'm baffled this is just as half-baked as it is. I do not understand it at all. It's not horrible, but also not really that good? I don't know, just didn't live up to the potential I wished of it.
SPOILERS FROM HERE ON
Sid needed to be SLAPPED multiple times over. She spends SO MUCH of this book moping and whining about how hard it was to be a princess and how heartbroken she is over Nirrim despite not knowing her at all, and being such a dick to her parents, it was horrible. Especially because I am SO attached and protective of Arin and Kestral, I was so irritated. As expected all the bullshit Sid spouted about them not loving her or not accepting her was just that, bullshit. Classic teenager misunderstanding which I get, we were all teens once, but I really thought she was smarter than this. And with having a queer godfather like Roshar?! C'MON! The most annoying was she was like 'I'm being force to marry a dude, whoa is me' and we find out that SHE is the reason she's fucking engaged!!! She arranged the whole thing!!! And Kestral knew she didn't want to and warred with herself over wanting to break it off, but then worried that'd make Sid hate her more because it'd take away her choice. She can't freaking win!!!! Also Sid claims to suggest it for the good of Herran, but huh?! Her betrothed is Roshar's nephew, and yeah his mom/Roshar's sister may not LOVE love Kestral and Arin, but I highly doubt they need to buy her affection with a marriage, especially into a loveless one. And legit no consequences came from breaking it! She finally admits to Kestral after pages and pages of complaining and Kestral's like, 'cool, no probs, just wanted the go ahead from you' and both of her parents are so happy when she says it's because she loves someone else. In what WORLLDDDD are they unsupportive?! And I would even understood if it was because they feared their line would end (though it's still never answered why Sid was their only kid, I found that super sus and would've loved Kestral explaining fertility problems or something like that, could've been so interesting) but no, it's literally just that Sid has pushed so far away from them they fear losing her. I felt so badly for them and it made me dislike her SO much. Nothing pleases her and I don't understand what they could've ever done to piss her off so much, other than her just being a spoiled brat. Even weirder, she seems incredibly jealous of their love. Like when Kestral is feeling better and arrives late to their dinner because she was hanging out with Arin, Sid is pissed that she's second best which is fucking absurd. Love for a child is quite different than love of a spouse, and honestly I think it's beautiful, and expected from those two, that Arin and Kestral are still so infatuated with one another, but it doesn't lessen their love for Sid. And then she's super jealous of everything they have, like how Kestral has a bond with Javelin the 'best horse' and Sid doesn't have her own, despite never trying. Or that Arin is a great blacksmith, but won't teach her and she really wants to learn. SO LEARN! He doesn't need to teach you! He learned the skill because he was LITERALLY enslaved and it's traumatic for him, like wtf?! Nothing they do pleases her until FINALLY she hashes out her feelings, proving to me that she's never been honest about anything and just suffered in silence believing they wouldn't understand instead of just talking. So fucking dumb omg, I hated it SO much.
So remember last book when I feared Nirrim had used her abilities to compel Sid to love her and none of their love was real? So that theory was false, yay for the creepy factor gone. HOWEVER that leaves us with this half-baked relationship that I still have ZERO clue why the heck they're so obsessed with each other and there is nothing done here to further develop or explain why they love each other. Sid spends more than half this book pissed at Nirrim for not loving her, despite that she never said that, until all of a sudden a random moment triggers the truth that she never specifically said she didn't love her and she's like OH YAY SHE DOES LOVE ME. lol wtf?! But I still don't get how or why they do, it's so dumb. Also despite EVERY warning, a quite literal one from the boy spy from last book, Sid is like, Nirrim can't be an evil queen, nah. Sees her and sees all the red flags, but is like, nah, let's fuck in her throne room. And only then, when Nirrim has to blatantly lay out her red flags she's like ooooh she evil. So you LOVE this girl but couldn't IMMEDIATELY tell something was wrong?! Her friends from last book could tell just by seeing her that she was fucked up, but Sid doesn't. AND THEN when she figures out what she'd done, her initial thoughts are, fuck her, she's not the same person I believed, BYE! And literally they have to beg Sid to realize she's not who she said because she gave up her heart, also Morah has the gift of truth apparently and can see the truth of things. So yeah...no explanation for why they're so deeply in love, the slightest distress Sid's like I'M OUT, but then is back in once she realizes that Nirrim can be fixed, fucking wild.
That leads us to the even crazier part of this book. So there's this 3rd POV the entire time, the God of Lies apparently, who's omniscient, but also tells the story about how Nirrim was born, starting with how she fucked up and lost a bet to the God of Games who turned her into a rose and said she'd be stuck like that forever until a human showed her kindness, which should be impossible because she's y'know...a rose. But then Raven's sister Irenah finds her, and picks her for Raven and Raven being a POS keeps her hidden for years and then when she opens the box gets pricked by the thorns and shreds her leading Irenah to pity her, freeing the God and causing her to fall in love with her. It's never explained how they begat a child being that they're both women, I have no issues with it, just that it's completely yadda yadda'd over them falling in love and creating Nirrim and when Sid questions the the god is like LOL YOU DUMB but again doesn't explain. So after that reveal the God's POV just shifts to chilling omnisciently and filling in some 3rd person gaps of what's happening, especially when Sid has to leave her body and go to the God's realm to retrieve Nirrim's heart (also remind you, she didn't want to until was begged to do so). Somehow she finds all the Gods hanging out and asks the God of Thieves for her heart back and they made this big deal about how you should never make deals with Gods and how you've already lost by doing so, but then she doesn't. She just has to find her way back to her body and Thieves blames the God who originally broke the rules and fell for a human, aka God of Lies, and for them to step forward and receive blame so she does. But nothing really happens to her either even though Games bets that Sid will make it back to her body and if she does Games gets to choose the punishment for Lies, and we know she's the one that turned her into a rose for ages in the first place. But when Sid gets back she just makes Lies recount the story, that's it. So damn random!! And such a bizarre addition! Again, the God aspect could've been really cool if it were actually fleshed out and played a legitimate part in this plot, but it really doesn't it's just such a strange aspect of this already strange book. I truly cannot wrap my head around the fact that the same woman wrote this and the WINNER'S series, this is just so less thought out and rushed, I don't understand.
I was happy Kestral wasn't actually sick and was just being poisoned, that was a fun twist and I was relieved about it because she's not nearly 0ld enough to die and I'm sure she's made enemies. But then you knew it had to be someone that was close to her and that really limited who it could be. I was livid honestly that Sid mildly suspects Roshar and even Arin (as if there was a world he could hurt Kestral, give me a fucking break). For all the things they've done for her and how much they love her, come ON, no chance, that was so dumb. But again that really only leaves a few people to suspect and as soon as one of the poison devices was a dress I was like, whelp it's her maid. Then the maid turned out to be Lirah, a girl who was in love with Arin but apparently got scarred in the war or something so was unrecognizable (she may have existed in WINNER'S, but I don't remember her at all) and her plan was to kill Sid, but then she loved her. But then why wait so damn long?! And why ramp up the poisoning now? So damn stupid, the plot could've been cool but just really wasn't handled well and ended up being kind of irrelevant. And I don't like that they made it seem like she was more of a mother figure to Sid, like no....Kestral is a good mom and I'll hear nothing to the contrary, Sid is just in her bullshit rebellious phase where nothing Kestral does is good enough and it's incredibly annoying.
I enjoyed heartless Nirrim for awhile, I'm not going lie. She's savage AF and commits straight up genocide on the High Kith, but in her warped mind I get it in some ways and not going to pretend I'm sad that she encouraged her people to attack and kill Raven, I get it. I also liked when she was like, 'why would you prefer old Nirrim? She was weak and pathetic' and I'm like...no no, she has a point. I also love her telling the old Nirrim in her mind to STFU, rightfully so. I also wasn't sad about her killing Aden, he basically wanted to be her king and said if she wouldn't comply he'd raise up people to fight her. She coerces him into kissing her, spits blood into his mouth to give him a dream and paralyze him (like she did Sid that one time), and then takes the opportunity to kill him, bye boy. But then her obsession with Sid just continued to grate on me. She kept being all 'Sid abandoned me' 'Sid doesn't love me' 'Sid left' like BRO! She LITERALLY asked you, kind of begged you, to go with her and you said no. You cannot claim she abandoned you when you rejected her. And this was CONSTANT! And when Sid does come back it's the same shit until she straight up threatens Sid's parents saying they don't love her. And then they find Sid's body asleep (because her soul's chillin in the god realm) and she sends a note saying if Herran doesn't surrender she'll kill Sid, of course causing them to go to war which is the last damn thing poor Arin and co need. She even debates killing Sid because she's just pissed, but can't do it because conveniently that's when Sid finds her way to her body with her heart. This whole thing was just so dumb and it's smoothed over so quickly, I just do not understand what I read.
There are some nice moments here and there, (like everything with Roshar, Kestral/Arin still madly in love, and the spy boy from book one ended up being the baby Morah was forced to give up so they were reunited which was nice) but for the most part this book was exceedingly frustrating. I do not understand what I just read and am so surprised at how, for the most part, bad it was. I'm really bummed out because I loved WINNER'S so much and there's a lot of promise to this concept, but it just very much did not work for me. The plot was barely there and the romance was so shallow and forced, there was nothing to grab onto. Just not for me, even though I'm truly bummed about it.
After having quite literally given her heart to the God of Thieves in MIDNIGHT LIE, Nirrim has declared herself queen and decides to avenge the wrongs done to her people, despite how cruel it may seem. Sid runs home to aid her dying mother only to find out she's not sick as believe, she's being poisoned. As blood is shed and Sid tries to help her country, she hears word of this ruthless queen, but does not know it's Nirrim. Will she be able to help her family, home, and the girl she loves? Or will it be too late?
While MIDNIGHT LIE exists in the world of the WINNER'S CURSE series, but mostly stood on its own, HOLLOW HEART very much does not. While I'm sure it could be read without having read the other series, it would literally spoil everything and paint those main characters not in the best light. While I adored being back with those character, I don't think they were utilized to their best ability in this book, honestly I don't think anything was.
A lot happens for such a short book, but I think that length is one of the issues of this sequel. I'm relieved that Sid was given a POV, it was needed, but honestly it made me dislike her more. While heartless Nirrim was quite interesting, and she still had a lot more emotion than I expected so she was still interesting, Sid was a mewling, hypocritical, petulant brat and far less interesting than the character I believed her to be last book. So much time was spent of her being absolutely horrible to her parents, despite them just wanting to love her, miserable that Nirrim didn't love her, despite how that clearly wasn't true, and whining over self-imposed fates no one asked her to do. It was exhausting. We scrape the surface of her dynamics with her family, but for the most part it was just aggravating rather than really digging deep.
Then the big plot of Nirrim committing atrocities she deemed justified was kind of awesome, I'm not going to lie and I was really interested to see what would happen with Sid returned. But literally everything is fixed up and solved in like less than 50 pages, it was insane. And yet this book was also exceedingly slow moving while also being so short, I cannot wrap my head around it. There were aspects that interested and amused me, but I'm really more left incredibly confused.
I'm super disappointed with this duology. It's not at all what I expected and not in a good way. For someone who created SUCH an interesting series and beautiful love story, I'm baffled this is just as half-baked as it is. I do not understand it at all. It's not horrible, but also not really that good? I don't know, just didn't live up to the potential I wished of it.
SPOILERS FROM HERE ON
Sid needed to be SLAPPED multiple times over. She spends SO MUCH of this book moping and whining about how hard it was to be a princess and how heartbroken she is over Nirrim despite not knowing her at all, and being such a dick to her parents, it was horrible. Especially because I am SO attached and protective of Arin and Kestral, I was so irritated. As expected all the bullshit Sid spouted about them not loving her or not accepting her was just that, bullshit. Classic teenager misunderstanding which I get, we were all teens once, but I really thought she was smarter than this. And with having a queer godfather like Roshar?! C'MON! The most annoying was she was like 'I'm being force to marry a dude, whoa is me' and we find out that SHE is the reason she's fucking engaged!!! She arranged the whole thing!!! And Kestral knew she didn't want to and warred with herself over wanting to break it off, but then worried that'd make Sid hate her more because it'd take away her choice. She can't freaking win!!!! Also Sid claims to suggest it for the good of Herran, but huh?! Her betrothed is Roshar's nephew, and yeah his mom/Roshar's sister may not LOVE love Kestral and Arin, but I highly doubt they need to buy her affection with a marriage, especially into a loveless one. And legit no consequences came from breaking it! She finally admits to Kestral after pages and pages of complaining and Kestral's like, 'cool, no probs, just wanted the go ahead from you' and both of her parents are so happy when she says it's because she loves someone else. In what WORLLDDDD are they unsupportive?! And I would even understood if it was because they feared their line would end (though it's still never answered why Sid was their only kid, I found that super sus and would've loved Kestral explaining fertility problems or something like that, could've been so interesting) but no, it's literally just that Sid has pushed so far away from them they fear losing her. I felt so badly for them and it made me dislike her SO much. Nothing pleases her and I don't understand what they could've ever done to piss her off so much, other than her just being a spoiled brat. Even weirder, she seems incredibly jealous of their love. Like when Kestral is feeling better and arrives late to their dinner because she was hanging out with Arin, Sid is pissed that she's second best which is fucking absurd. Love for a child is quite different than love of a spouse, and honestly I think it's beautiful, and expected from those two, that Arin and Kestral are still so infatuated with one another, but it doesn't lessen their love for Sid. And then she's super jealous of everything they have, like how Kestral has a bond with Javelin the 'best horse' and Sid doesn't have her own, despite never trying. Or that Arin is a great blacksmith, but won't teach her and she really wants to learn. SO LEARN! He doesn't need to teach you! He learned the skill because he was LITERALLY enslaved and it's traumatic for him, like wtf?! Nothing they do pleases her until FINALLY she hashes out her feelings, proving to me that she's never been honest about anything and just suffered in silence believing they wouldn't understand instead of just talking. So fucking dumb omg, I hated it SO much.
So remember last book when I feared Nirrim had used her abilities to compel Sid to love her and none of their love was real? So that theory was false, yay for the creepy factor gone. HOWEVER that leaves us with this half-baked relationship that I still have ZERO clue why the heck they're so obsessed with each other and there is nothing done here to further develop or explain why they love each other. Sid spends more than half this book pissed at Nirrim for not loving her, despite that she never said that, until all of a sudden a random moment triggers the truth that she never specifically said she didn't love her and she's like OH YAY SHE DOES LOVE ME. lol wtf?! But I still don't get how or why they do, it's so dumb. Also despite EVERY warning, a quite literal one from the boy spy from last book, Sid is like, Nirrim can't be an evil queen, nah. Sees her and sees all the red flags, but is like, nah, let's fuck in her throne room. And only then, when Nirrim has to blatantly lay out her red flags she's like ooooh she evil. So you LOVE this girl but couldn't IMMEDIATELY tell something was wrong?! Her friends from last book could tell just by seeing her that she was fucked up, but Sid doesn't. AND THEN when she figures out what she'd done, her initial thoughts are, fuck her, she's not the same person I believed, BYE! And literally they have to beg Sid to realize she's not who she said because she gave up her heart, also Morah has the gift of truth apparently and can see the truth of things. So yeah...no explanation for why they're so deeply in love, the slightest distress Sid's like I'M OUT, but then is back in once she realizes that Nirrim can be fixed, fucking wild.
That leads us to the even crazier part of this book. So there's this 3rd POV the entire time, the God of Lies apparently, who's omniscient, but also tells the story about how Nirrim was born, starting with how she fucked up and lost a bet to the God of Games who turned her into a rose and said she'd be stuck like that forever until a human showed her kindness, which should be impossible because she's y'know...a rose. But then Raven's sister Irenah finds her, and picks her for Raven and Raven being a POS keeps her hidden for years and then when she opens the box gets pricked by the thorns and shreds her leading Irenah to pity her, freeing the God and causing her to fall in love with her. It's never explained how they begat a child being that they're both women, I have no issues with it, just that it's completely yadda yadda'd over them falling in love and creating Nirrim and when Sid questions the the god is like LOL YOU DUMB but again doesn't explain. So after that reveal the God's POV just shifts to chilling omnisciently and filling in some 3rd person gaps of what's happening, especially when Sid has to leave her body and go to the God's realm to retrieve Nirrim's heart (also remind you, she didn't want to until was begged to do so). Somehow she finds all the Gods hanging out and asks the God of Thieves for her heart back and they made this big deal about how you should never make deals with Gods and how you've already lost by doing so, but then she doesn't. She just has to find her way back to her body and Thieves blames the God who originally broke the rules and fell for a human, aka God of Lies, and for them to step forward and receive blame so she does. But nothing really happens to her either even though Games bets that Sid will make it back to her body and if she does Games gets to choose the punishment for Lies, and we know she's the one that turned her into a rose for ages in the first place. But when Sid gets back she just makes Lies recount the story, that's it. So damn random!! And such a bizarre addition! Again, the God aspect could've been really cool if it were actually fleshed out and played a legitimate part in this plot, but it really doesn't it's just such a strange aspect of this already strange book. I truly cannot wrap my head around the fact that the same woman wrote this and the WINNER'S series, this is just so less thought out and rushed, I don't understand.
I was happy Kestral wasn't actually sick and was just being poisoned, that was a fun twist and I was relieved about it because she's not nearly 0ld enough to die and I'm sure she's made enemies. But then you knew it had to be someone that was close to her and that really limited who it could be. I was livid honestly that Sid mildly suspects Roshar and even Arin (as if there was a world he could hurt Kestral, give me a fucking break). For all the things they've done for her and how much they love her, come ON, no chance, that was so dumb. But again that really only leaves a few people to suspect and as soon as one of the poison devices was a dress I was like, whelp it's her maid. Then the maid turned out to be Lirah, a girl who was in love with Arin but apparently got scarred in the war or something so was unrecognizable (she may have existed in WINNER'S, but I don't remember her at all) and her plan was to kill Sid, but then she loved her. But then why wait so damn long?! And why ramp up the poisoning now? So damn stupid, the plot could've been cool but just really wasn't handled well and ended up being kind of irrelevant. And I don't like that they made it seem like she was more of a mother figure to Sid, like no....Kestral is a good mom and I'll hear nothing to the contrary, Sid is just in her bullshit rebellious phase where nothing Kestral does is good enough and it's incredibly annoying.
I enjoyed heartless Nirrim for awhile, I'm not going lie. She's savage AF and commits straight up genocide on the High Kith, but in her warped mind I get it in some ways and not going to pretend I'm sad that she encouraged her people to attack and kill Raven, I get it. I also liked when she was like, 'why would you prefer old Nirrim? She was weak and pathetic' and I'm like...no no, she has a point. I also love her telling the old Nirrim in her mind to STFU, rightfully so. I also wasn't sad about her killing Aden, he basically wanted to be her king and said if she wouldn't comply he'd raise up people to fight her. She coerces him into kissing her, spits blood into his mouth to give him a dream and paralyze him (like she did Sid that one time), and then takes the opportunity to kill him, bye boy. But then her obsession with Sid just continued to grate on me. She kept being all 'Sid abandoned me' 'Sid doesn't love me' 'Sid left' like BRO! She LITERALLY asked you, kind of begged you, to go with her and you said no. You cannot claim she abandoned you when you rejected her. And this was CONSTANT! And when Sid does come back it's the same shit until she straight up threatens Sid's parents saying they don't love her. And then they find Sid's body asleep (because her soul's chillin in the god realm) and she sends a note saying if Herran doesn't surrender she'll kill Sid, of course causing them to go to war which is the last damn thing poor Arin and co need. She even debates killing Sid because she's just pissed, but can't do it because conveniently that's when Sid finds her way to her body with her heart. This whole thing was just so dumb and it's smoothed over so quickly, I just do not understand what I read.
There are some nice moments here and there, (like everything with Roshar, Kestral/Arin still madly in love, and the spy boy from book one ended up being the baby Morah was forced to give up so they were reunited which was nice) but for the most part this book was exceedingly frustrating. I do not understand what I just read and am so surprised at how, for the most part, bad it was. I'm really bummed out because I loved WINNER'S so much and there's a lot of promise to this concept, but it just very much did not work for me. The plot was barely there and the romance was so shallow and forced, there was nothing to grab onto. Just not for me, even though I'm truly bummed about it.
shubunkin_reads's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
I feel like this story deserved to be a trilogy. The first book was just right, but this one could have used more exploration of certain plot points and most of all the aftermath of Nirrim‘s actions and how she will deal with her guilt. Never the less, I enjoyed this duology thoroughly.
lipah's review against another edition
emotional
hopeful
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.75