Akwaeke Emezi's Pet
I’ve been meaning to read something by Emezi for a while, and since my tastes run toward speculative fiction, obviously this was the one to choose! It’s set in a future world, where all the “monsters” (bad people) have been conquered, and deals with what happens when a young (Black, trans) girl frees a monster-hunter from a painting. It’s all very metaphorical and beautiful, but gets dark and intense. It did feel kind of short or like there wasn’t a ton to the plot, but it is a YA book, I just wished it had gone a little deeper. A-.
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