Book Review: Pet by Akwaeke Emezi

Blurb

There are no monsters anymore, or so the children in the city of Lucille are taught.

Jam and her best friend, Redemption, have grown up with this lesson all their life.

But when Jam meets Pet, a creature made of horns and colors 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 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 you can make when the society around you is in denial.

My Review of Pet by Akwaeke Emezi

In a Utopian state of Lucille, the monsters are gone, because the angels have eliminated them and all other sorts of corruption.

But Jam, a trans girl who is also non vocal, is curious about the monsters. She wants to see their pictures, to read about them.

Her parents Aloe and Bitter try to cajole her out of her quest for her knowledge on monsters.

Lucille is now safe, a perfect nation. There are no monsters.

But humans only see what they want to see, because of what they believe. Are monsters really gone from the shores of Lucille?

One day Pet, a creature with claws and colors emerges from Bitter's drawing through the summoning from the drop of blood from Jam's fingers.

Pet is here to save the day, to hunt the hunter. But whom will it hunt? There are no monsters.

But Pet insists a monster lives in Jam's Best friend Redemption's house. And they must hunt it down. But is there really a minter in Lucille? Read the book to find out.

Pet by Akwaeke Emezi