Human Rights

Oh the wages of buying books solely based on covers!

While I didn't hate this, ultimately I didn't love it, by which I mean that I was expecting some freaky interspecies love, maybe a little non-con, definitely D/s smex with roles subverted. The only joy here was the non-humans as the ruling species but everything else was just ... tame? tepid? uninspired? Suffice it to say that it gave me space to dwell on the illogical or inconsistent parts of the world building.

Ewan is a pet, a human pet, and worse yet and aging mutt in a world ruled by every other species but humans. He's 31 and reaching the end of his desirability as a pet, particularly as he is of no discernible parentage. Ewan is back at the pound after his last owner got a pure breed baby, his time is running short. To the rescue comes Sir Jiat, a jaguar member of The Guard of The City. The relationship develops pretty much as you'd expect in a romance but, to my taste, without much real conflict/tension between the the characters save for the illegality of interspecies relationships. The smex itself is pretty tame, nothing super bad/wrong or weird as I'd hoped for. Sir Jiat is Mr. Perfect and Ewan is ... a tame pet. shrug

The placidness and somewhat pedestrian themes left me to wonder why would larger sized feline species want humans, with our physical frailties, as pets?

Maybe I'll give it another go a different time and I'll like it more. We'll see.