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I cannot breathe

“I put the letter down, and a queer smile tugs at my lips. No, we will never stand to have our portrait done. Leonid will not live long enough for all of that.” I know that’s right

“Why do you want her to be so hungry?” she asks, seething. “Is it to make her compliant and stupid? It is, isn’t it? Because that is the only sort of you can handle!” Yulnia my beloved BOOM ROASTED

“You are a tyrant and a brat, Leonid—how dare you be so embarrassing? Every day you prove why I should have been the head of the family.” HELL YEAH YULNIA

There is no way. Absolutely no way

the way my jaw just dropped

why does everyone always hate on the only daughter?

“I am wrapped from head to foot in tassels and gray rabbit’s fur on the day I depart to meet husband.” What a sentence to start with

Gothic and over the top. I never really became fond of the characters, but I was interested enough in the story and various conceits to keep going. At this part I’m nearly through it, so I might as well finish it. I’ll be glad to read something else, though.

"My mother had the same affliction, and Yulnia, too. I've never known the men of my family to suffer so. It must be a weakness peculiar to the female mind."

Girl. Run.

Don't know if I will stick with it or not. The writing is lovely, the MC is a brat (in the "I don't know if the author is intending this" kind of way.)