Blood Over Bright Haven

by M.L. Wang

She never would have worn such a fine bit of frippery to a test, but Aunt Winny had balked when her niece had come downstairs in her usual study blouse and pinafore.

But was she? How unreasonable was it to expect failure where no woman had ever succeeded?

we really going to pretend that there has never been a time where A WOMAN passed this test, but it's passed by men regularly???

“Could I buy you a drink?”

i am crying

“Kwen who can’t work a job—whatever the job—don’t get to live.” “My!” Sciona laughed. “It’s true what they say about you people being melodramatic.”

bitch wtf

Some claim they were a series of stone tablets.” She read aloud because she knew Thomil was slow to read on his own: “Thus, Leon brought the Vendresid and its many mysteries to his stronghold in the basin and, from them, rose, at God’s command, the City of Tiran.”

Is this literally a book on Mormonism???

“This from a savage!” Sciona threw back because she was out of things to throw. “From a land of cannibals!”

im ready to dnf this because shes so annoying

So many parents will try to kill everything brilliant about a girl in the name of giving her a good life, a safe life, a chance at happiness.

In refusing to be a stepping stone, she had made herself a boot.