A review by hannahhbic
The Hollow Heart by Marie Rutkoski

5.0

This book is a sapphic fever dream in all the best ways. It's about what happens when you lose yourself. Sid and Nirrim are back, and neither of them are the same people that they were in book one. Good luck everybody else! But for real prayer circle for all the citizens in NIRRIM'S kingdom. Do things get easier? Does Nirrim finally come to her senses? Does Sid get to play the hero she's always dreamt of being??? Come sit next to me and listen, and we'll find out. I will mildly spoil that this is very much Sid's book, as book one was Nirrim's. I adore that Sid is somewhere on the enby spectrum and completely related to her experience in regard to gender/gender presentation.

Content warnings for blood, gore, poison, executions

Thank you to NetGalley for a preview copy of the audiobook in exchange for an honest review.