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Pet
by Akwaeke Emezi
Disclaimer: I received this book from the publisher. Thanks! All opinions are my own!
Book: Pet
Author: Akwaeke Emezi
Book Series: Standalone
Rating: 5/5
Diversity: Black, trans MC! LGBT friendly!
Publication Date: September 1, 2019
Genre: MG Dystopian
Recommended Age: 12+ (some small scary scenes and some violence, a little gore)
Publisher: Make Me A World
Pages: 208
Amazon Link
Synopsis: Pet is here to hunt a monster.
Are you brave enough to look?
There are no more monsters anymore, or so the children in the city of Lucille are taught. With doting parents and a best friend named Redemption, Jam has grown up with this lesson all her life. But when she meets Pet, a creature made of horns and colours and claws, who emerges from one of her mother's paintings and a drop of Jam's blood, she must reconsider what she's been told. Pet has come to hunt a monster, and the shadow of something grim lurks in Redemption's house. Jam must fight not only to protect her best friend, but also to uncover the truth, and the answer to the question-How do you save the world from monsters if no one will admit they exist?
In their riveting and timely young adult debut, acclaimed novelist Akwaeke Emezi asks difficult questions about what choices a young person can make when the adults around them are in denial.
Review: I absolutely loved this book! It was the right amount of dystopian with an amazing dash of trans/LGBT friendliness all books should strive to be! The writing was absolutely amazing, the characters were well developed, and I was definitely intrigued throughout the whole of the novel.
However, I do feel that this book is wrote younger than what it was originally marketed. That’s not necessarily a bad thing at all, but some readers might be turned off by that. And because of that, I felt like some of the solutions weren’t as well as they could have been. They’re kind of obvious, and that’s not because it’s for a younger audience. I’ve read some middle grade books that had complex solutions that worked, but this one was just a bit simple in my opinion.
Verdict: An amazing book that I definitely recommend!
Book: Pet
Author: Akwaeke Emezi
Book Series: Standalone
Rating: 5/5
Diversity: Black, trans MC! LGBT friendly!
Publication Date: September 1, 2019
Genre: MG Dystopian
Recommended Age: 12+ (some small scary scenes and some violence, a little gore)
Publisher: Make Me A World
Pages: 208
Amazon Link
Synopsis: Pet is here to hunt a monster.
Are you brave enough to look?
There are no more monsters anymore, or so the children in the city of Lucille are taught. With doting parents and a best friend named Redemption, Jam has grown up with this lesson all her life. But when she meets Pet, a creature made of horns and colours and claws, who emerges from one of her mother's paintings and a drop of Jam's blood, she must reconsider what she's been told. Pet has come to hunt a monster, and the shadow of something grim lurks in Redemption's house. Jam must fight not only to protect her best friend, but also to uncover the truth, and the answer to the question-How do you save the world from monsters if no one will admit they exist?
In their riveting and timely young adult debut, acclaimed novelist Akwaeke Emezi asks difficult questions about what choices a young person can make when the adults around them are in denial.
Review: I absolutely loved this book! It was the right amount of dystopian with an amazing dash of trans/LGBT friendliness all books should strive to be! The writing was absolutely amazing, the characters were well developed, and I was definitely intrigued throughout the whole of the novel.
However, I do feel that this book is wrote younger than what it was originally marketed. That’s not necessarily a bad thing at all, but some readers might be turned off by that. And because of that, I felt like some of the solutions weren’t as well as they could have been. They’re kind of obvious, and that’s not because it’s for a younger audience. I’ve read some middle grade books that had complex solutions that worked, but this one was just a bit simple in my opinion.
Verdict: An amazing book that I definitely recommend!