Status Updates From Possessed: A Dark Gothic Ro...

“When a man hurts you, you can run or you can fight. But what if it is not one man who harms you? What if it’s generations, legions? What if the violence has become so ingrained that it hides in broad daylight? That it’s what allows men like your husband to go unpunished? What do you do then?”

She did not answer, so I did.

“You burn it all down.”

"The pail was only half full when she ran dry. It used to fill completely, sometimes requiring a second container. But I patted her neck gratefully anyway. “Every drop is rebellion,” I told her. “Every day you survive past your usefulness is a small victory against a world that measures our worth in what we can provide—milk, babies…silence.”

Thanks, Ava. Now you have me crying over a cow.

I feel like I’m going to have the same issues that I did with Devoured. That the feminine rage overshadowed the plot too much to the point where it became tropey/campy. I’m all for feminine rage, but if the whole plot is “men are evil” and “demons are sexy” it just feels very meh after awhile.