The other half is narrated by Effie and her side of things are more of a mystery compared to the magical contemporary angle Tavia’s storyline takes.
One of her alleged allies, an eloko named Naema, is basically Candace Owens as a magically charming teenage girl, complete with internalized misogynoir and a Highlander fallacy in her head.īut Tavia is only half the story. She has a magical community of beloved elokos to hide among and an adoptive sister in Effie, but Tavia is still the only siren around. Kinda like a Black person instantly being “no angel” after a police officer murders them.Īnd Tavia is a siren–one whose dad is so anti-siren she nearly killed herself trying to get rid of her voice, prompting the family’s move to Portland. Just claim she was a siren and everyone is on your side with no evidence necessary. See, sirens are exclusively Black girls and women and sirenhood can’t be proven after death. The Hart family murder-suicide and the murder very suspicious death of Sandra Bland are brought up, as are multiple fictional Black women whose murderers got away with it by claiming the women were sirens using their voices to control their killers.
Tavia and Effie’s world is ours with just a little myth-made-real on top.
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