Mickaël Dias da Rocha’s Reviews > Fawn > Status Update

That dynamic with Broder is so real. It’s obnoxiously real.

So we’re back. Just had to process some personal stuff. I’m clearly not reading romances for a while.
Anyways. I do feel for Tess here. I abhor that village mindset of venomous badmouthing. It makes me loose my shit. It’s disgusting, vile, unfair. In most cases it’s just about hearsay… and targets anything that breaks a bit of the mould… mix that with the conservative social structures and… whatever.

Well that’s quite the contrast here. David seeking help at Tess house, Tess going to Zeke’s to put a curse.

That exchange is quite sad because of all the interconnections and possibilities.

I’m wondering if the writer knows how Tess looks like there. The fact that she used the term “addict” in that sequence tells me that she does.
Which makes me even more curious about where this is going.

It just hit me and it seems quite obvious now.
The point is not the symbol/metaphor, it’s what it triggers in the characters. What they see about themselves. Just like when I draw cards in a sense, or when I read.
The symbol can be obviously for the readers to make sense. It just adds another recursive symbolism where empathy takes more room in the process.

Tess don’t fall for the eugenist rhetoric… 😭😭