Ratings107
Average rating4.3
This is a very quick read and an excellent book, and one that will linger after the last page. I really enjoyed Emezi’s lyrical writing style, and once things got going in the third chapter it moves at a fairly quick pace.
Aside from Pet itself, the magical realism of the setting is a little abstracted and never fully explained, but it blends well with the story’s tone. It handles its sensitive topics in a very age appropriate way (although nothing is explicit, it will be a “mind the trigger warnings” book for many). I also appreciated how the setting played I a very thematic role, how it’s easy to become complacent even (or especially) in a world that prides itself on being better than the one that came before. And I loved the casual diversity in the cast (and Jam being both trans and selectively mute and neither of them being treated as a plot altering thing).
I do wish we’d had a little more from the conclusion, and I don’t know that I will ever reread it, but it is definitely one I recommend reading at least once.
This is a very quick read and an excellent book, and one that will linger after the last page. I really enjoyed Emezi’s lyrical writing style, and once things got going in the third chapter it moves at a fairly quick pace.
Aside from Pet itself, the magical realism of the setting is a little abstracted and never fully explained, but it blends well with the story’s tone. It handles its sensitive topics in a very age appropriate way (although nothing is explicit, it will be a “mind the trigger warnings” book for many). I also appreciated how the setting played I a very thematic role, how it’s easy to become complacent even (or especially) in a world that prides itself on being better than the one that came before. And I loved the casual diversity in the cast (and Jam being both trans and selectively mute and neither of them being treated as a plot altering thing).
I do wish we’d had a little more from the conclusion, and I don’t know that I will ever reread it, but it is definitely one I recommend reading at least once.
