Chapel Orahamm

When you get up in the morning, the last thing you expect to see is a murdered bloke hanging outside your window. Things like that tend to draw the attention of the local police, and when you’re squatting in your parents’ old house until you can afford to buy it, another thing you can’t afford is the attention of the cops.

Oh yeah. G’day. My name is Pet. It’s not my real name, but it’s the only one you’re getting. Things like names are important these days.

And it’s not so much that I’m Pet. I am a pet. A human pet: I belong to the two Behindkind fae and the pouty vampire who just moved into my house. It’s not weird, I promise—well, it is weird, yeah. But it’s not weird weird, you know?

I picked this one up for free and could say that no one would be upset at paying real money for it.

I’m not sure how many people reading this will have ever experienced any of the Meow Wolf installations. I’ve been out to see the one at Sante Fe twice. The grocery store scene reminded me of the installation in Denver – but I haven’t been to that one, just seen pictures. And this book was like experiencing Meow Wolf all over again.

Here, let me show you:

Those are deeper into the core of Sante Fe’s version. I didn’t get photos of the entrance area because it tends to have lots of people in it and I try not to get photos of random people if I can help it. Privacy and all that.

Anyways, the world build was Meow Wolfe esque in Australia.

The book has a character named Pet – who ends up being called it/she. It takes a while before you are even given a pronoun for the main character, so it felt a little disorienting when it happened because I was solidly into the character being male. Not sure why, but anyways.

When you hear the nickname “pet” and that someone is being “kept”, you might start thinking this could be a kinky polycule situation.

But no. Don’t go anticipating romance in this book by any stretch of the imagination. It is solidly in fantasy-action with no subplot to romance. That is not a bad thing. The book holds steady in it’s chosen genre.

I only caught a couple of typos – the average you would see in any industry standard piece. And the pacing was decent with enough space for breathing room. It didn’t feel like it was dragging out sections.

I rather enjoyed the read. It was a nice palette cleanser. I’ve been trying to get through a different het-romance for a review and am just not into, so diving on this one was rather pleasant.

Would I suggest it? Sure. If you don’t mind mentions and word-imagery for blood and gore.

This one I’m tempted to pick up other books in the series because there where a whole lot of loose ends at the end of the story. It genuinely cannot be treated as a stand-alone.

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