I love Miryem as a protagonist so so much but especially I love her anger. She's angry, and she's justified in it. She's angry about her parents being passive to a point of letting the family starve, she's angry about the people in town and the anti-semitism thrown against her at every turn.
But her anger never makes her irrational or HySTeRiCaL as so many might say. She's angry with her parents but still loves them and shows her love, she's angry at the people in town for trying to get out of paying their debts but never unfair to them in what she asks. Even though she doesn't care about them because they all treat her family and her people like shit she accepts what little they can give her and doesn't force anyone to starve themselves to repay her debt.
And she's so angry at the Staryk king for very good reason but even so, she never extends her anger at the other Staryk; she loves Flek and Tsop and Shofer, she loves Rebekah and when her anger at the Staryk king hurts the entire Staryk realm she goes and tries to make it right.
She's angry and she's proud and it's oh so easy to believe that even the Staryk king would fall for her.
She's easily making it to the top 10 of my favourite female protagonists. What a queen indeed.
