A review by lolajh
Pet by Akwaeke Emezi

adventurous dark emotional inspiring reflective fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Perfectly conveying racism and police brutality through fantasy themes and referring to the bad people in this world as monsters. Jam is a trans girl who uncovers an unfortunate mystery in her family with the help of the morally grey fantasy being: Pet. Pet acts as a guardian and protector of Jam and her community whilst having horrific and extreme motives that are what make it a morally grey character that I still adore. This book is quite reflective, because it makes you wonder if people who have done bad things like those that are done in this book do deserve to be dehumanised as monsters and be sentenced to death, which I can understand as a solution because of the objectively immoral things done by humans in this book. It opened my eyes to how much of the world is full of bad people, and how not all of them can be noticed as such straight away or are even conscious of it themselves. Very scary thought that Akwaeke illustrated so well.
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