Pet to lovers? 🐶

This book was SO WEIRD. Just… completely different from any other alien romance out there 😆

Our human lady got abducted, turned into an alien’s pet, and had her own reasons for letting aliens believe humans aren’t that smart.

But wherever your mind just went based on that one sentence synopsis—nope, that’s not what this book was about.

It wasn’t a metaphor for animal cruelty, it wasn’t a pet fetish. It was just… SO EFFING WEIRD! He treated her like a beloved animal companion. He dressed her, he bathed her, he patted her head. She got her temperature taken in her butt at the vet.. oh god. The pet thing was 0% sexy, 100% unsettling sci-fi dystopian energy. “Good girl” may or may not be ruined for me forever.

Yet what had me cackling with glee was the promise of a God-tier grovel 😈 And this story delivered. When this alien guy found out that she was just as sentient as he was, and even spoke his alien language.. HE WAS MORTIFIED. He’d been going to the washroom in front of her, she’d been to all his therapy sessions. Reckoning with the de-humanizing way he had treated her was a multi-layered, multi-faceted, multi-chapter endeavor. It was delicious!

If only this book had stuck the ending. The transition from pet to lovers wasn’t done badly (and it could have gone real bad), but it did seem rushed and not up to the same standard as the rest of the book, imo.

Still, I’m going to remember this book forever. I’m going to be on my deathbed like, “Remember that alien romance where she was his pet and peed on the floor? Good times.” 💀