Astra

This is a very sweet story of a young lady who has had enough of her conniving relatives' mistreatment and goes out on her own, choosing uncertainty over bondage. The story covers the people she meets along the way, good and bad. Of course there is a handsome young man, and I particularly enjoyed his nieces and nephew.
The one thing I object to is one spot where Astra tells the nephew “God is ashamed of you” when he is rude to someone (justifiably). I will never agree with using God as a disciplinary measure, because it can foster a wrong opinion of God. If she had instead said something like “God will be proud if you can forgive her and apologize for your rudeness” it might have settled better.