![]() Apparently, this (scary things popping out of paintings) has happened before but we don’t really learn the details of why/when/how. ![]() This creature, Pet, is a monster hunter who speaks in a painfully ‘i’m not human’ way that brought to mind Yoda from Star Wars. Her blood brings forth the clawed and monstrous-looking creature her mother had depicted in said painting. Her mother is an artist and one-day Jam bleeds on one of her paintings. She has loving parents and a best-friend named Redemption (all of their names are like this…why? not sure). Jam, our protagonist, is a child who lives in Lucille. ![]() Apparently, monsters (what kind of monsters? i’m not sure) are no longer a thing and have been banished or annihilated by badass looking angels (when? how? not sure). Pet opens with some pages of exposition which paint a rather vague dystopian picture. ![]() I couldn’t help but feel that at times the tone and content of these two books didn’t always quite mesh well together. ![]() I had a similar experience when I read All Our Hidden Gifts, Caroline O’Donoghue’s foray into the MG/YA genre. Pet is my second book by Akwaeke Emezi and while I did find it to be an engaging read it didn’t quite hit me the way as their The Death of Vivek Oji did. ![]()
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