It was a little heartbreaking to recount some of the incidents that sparked the changes since a lot of it still goes on now, like the school shootings, deaths at the hands of police officers, and bombings of mosques and temples, but that someone was putting things in place to prevent repeat offenses and more importantly, remember those who were lost, was a nice touch.

Although this is a fantasy tale, Lucille still felt like a real place - especially in the detailing of the changes that went into place for this establishment to exist the way it does in this current time. The first thing that drew me in to this story once I got started was the world-building. “Monsters don’t look like anything, doux-doux. Her mother focused on her, cupping her cheek in a chalky hand. Little did I know that I would take away so much from a book that seemed so small. The more I looked into the basics of the story, the more I knew it was something I had to read.

I’d read plenty of stories involving team ups with kids and creatures, but couldn’t remember the last time I found one with a female main character, let alone a Black girl. This story initially caught my interest because it seemed to be a different take on the kid and a monster tale. But forgetting is dangerous.įorgetting is how the monsters come back. You’re only remembering shadows of them, stories that seem to be limited to the pages or screens you read them from. It’s not the same when the monsters are gone. Also, the problem is, when you think you’ve been without monsters for so long, sometimes you forget what they look like, what they sound like, no matter how much remembering your education urges you to do. 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? REVIEWīut an echo of a memory is not the same as a memory, and a memory is not the same as a now, and anyway, he’d said it loud enough that the painting heard it. Pet has come to hunt a monster – and the shadow of something grim lurks in Redemption’s house. 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.

Jam and her best friend, Redemption, have grown up with this lesson all their life. There are no monsters anymore, or so the children in the city of Lucille are taught. Synopsis | Pet is here to hunt a monster. POPSUGAR Reading Challenge | A book by a trans or nonbinary author

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