Review: An Interesting Premise
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 27, 2012
Zenobia Renquist's sci-fi romance PET'S PLEASURE starts with an intriguing premise - what would happen if humans were being abducted from Earth as pets for an alien race.The writing is crisp and the story is entertaining and compelling. The heroine's fear and confusion as she's introduced to her life as a pet is done well. The interplay between Bekion and Starling is fun. Unlike most romances I couldn't guess how the author was going to pull off the hero and heroine's happy ending. She surprised me, which doesn't happen often. The secondary characters were interesting. I loved Webber.I only had one problem with the book. While Ms Renquist worked hard to build a believable scenario, at times I found myself wondering how advance the hero's race was if when their so-called "pets" could carry on rational conversations they didn't figure out they weren't "animals." Though at the end of the book Ms Renquist provides a somewhat rational explanation for this it didn't come soon enough for me to suspend my disbelief and truly understand and sympathize with the hero's mindset. Though I did understand his dilemma. If the author had spent a bit more time exploring the social, political and cultural aspects of the story I would have given this book 5-Stars rather than 4.Overall PET'S PLEASURE is a fun read that I'd recommend to lovers of sci-fi romance.