I was one of the lucky ones. Was. It all ended for me when I was 12, when I was taken away from the last bit of hope and family that I had left. Now this is my life. Now I am just a pet. The world had gone to shit long ago, taken over by the vampire race. In order to keep some sort of peace in our land, the Vampire King made an agreement. The rich and powerful humans could survive just as they had been, untouched by the vampires save for the occasional blood collections, or so they thought. In reality we were all under their control. The Lords were the ones in charge in every city, whether we liked it or not. Even if the rich were still under their control, their lives were still better than the poor. The poorest lives held a much worse fate. The men were to be put to work as slaves and the women were to be pets. Pets were the lowest rank you could have. They were forced into cages that were too small to stand in with collars around their necks. They spent their lives in pet shops, just waiting for the dreadful day that they'll be bought. Those who were lucky enough to live through that, were to be slaughtered for their blood at age twenty five in an act to make sure that our population would stay steady. I was born into this world. Born into this world full of blood sucking monsters.
Very mixed feelings about this one. On one hand, romance between Nico and Khloe is well written and pretty sweet. I love the side characters Xander and Doe and imo they are more interesting than the main couple.
On the other hand, the setting of the book does disturb me, a lot. The power difference between the vampires and the humans is too much. Humans are kept in cages, whipped, enslaved, and deprived of their basic rights by their vampire masters...And we are supposed to be fine with this? I think I would like the book more if there was more rebellion/attempt to destroy the system by either the humans or the vampires, otherwise the way the author tries to frame it seems like acceptance of a very disgusting and morally corrupt system.
From the way Khloe tells it, it's almost as if her parents and her friend who tries to save her are bad people for going against the vampires who see them as objects. Rather, she accepts the world which limits humans as literal property and even shows disdain towards humans who challenge the system (like the guy who tries to rebel against giving blood).
Besides Khloe, other characters in the story actively participates in the oppression. Nico and Xander both buy pets despite knowing that most of them come from systematic rape. They do this knowing that by buying pets, they are supporting the breeders and pet shop owners with their money. Nico is additionally implied to have a considerable amount of political power due to his family connections, yet he never utilizes this power in a positive way and only expresses sympathy for the humans. His attitude is more than often "I feel bad about it but whatever I'm just gonna be here and not do anything".
Overall I can't support a book where an author tries to create an almost pro-oppression narrative and I think it's almost insensitive to do so in the context of the social justice movements going on today.
Although disturbing with the enslaved humans as pets, I couldn't put it down. I gave it 3 stars because it needs editing desperately. I understand the author started the book as a teen (very impressive) and bad grammar, typos, dialogue mistakes, and switching tenses are fine on Wattpad. However, if you're publishing a book for sale and making a profit on Amazon, it should be done professionally. I want to give credit where it's due and say that the author knows how to tell a fantastic story. So, great story telling and keep writing. Just find an editor, proofreader, beta readers, or at least use Prowriting aid/Grammarly before publishing on Amazon. I loved the book, though.
So I did read this all the way through. I was intrigued by the world the author created and the plot. This book is heavily plot driven. And while I liked the book enough to finish, I did have issues with some of the story, character development, and writing style.
So a quick recap (no spoilers, promise!): Khloe is a human in a world run by vampires. Each city now has a vampire lord to oversee it all, with other vampires under him, and then the richer humans under them. The poorer or less fortunate humans were slaves, pets, taken to the slaughter house for blood, or used for sex slaves. So Khloe, the protagonist, is taken to a “pet shop” for vampires after her family attempts to escape the vampire-run city. She has nightmares and the “pet master” whips her for crying. In walks Nico the vampire, who takes one look at her and buys her. The rest of the story unfolds from there. I love a good vampire story, but I feel as though the author took on too much for this world to be fully developed. For example, some humans were “free” to live and work in the city for a simple blood donation once every two months or so, while other humans were enslaved. I thought that was an odd dynamic. It would have made sense for all humans to live a certain way, in my opinion, either enslaved or “free.” I also thought the handling of human pets by human slaves was strange. The humans could help each other out, I would think, therefore, all handling of humans by vampires would seem to make more sense. It also didn’t seem to make sense that the human pets wore collars and leashes. If they had collars on when they were alone, what stopped them from taking them off? They have fingers. I would think when they were leashed that at least their hands would have been tied or something. Also, I was very confused by the structure of the vampires themselves. It seems like they’re just like humans, except they are strong, more beautiful, and drink blood. They can apparently eat food, have heart beats, sleep in beds, and they can walk around in the daylight. I don’t mind writers taking liberty with recreating the vampire myth at all, but I really didn’t see too many differences to humans. And it isn’t until the very end of the book that the reader really understands the vampires of this world. That would have been better placed at the beginning of the story.
The story itself is told in the point of view of two characters - Nico the vamp and Khloe his human pet. These characters could have been better developed using that first person pov, but it was primarily used to express their thoughts. The writing style could have varied to develop these characters, but it just read the same. Without the text that expressed the viewpoint, I would not have noticed much change.
Lastly, the writing style itself needs a lot of improvement. There were numerous grammatical errors, spelling mistakes, and the descriptions were severely lacking. For example, at one point, Khloe’s eyes were compared to an owl’s. That’s all it said. I wasn’t quite sure what the author was attempting with that simile. In another moment, the author had written that a particular room had good smells wafting from it. I wanted to know - what good smells? What food were they eating? What decorated the room? Food and meals took a priority in the novel, but after the first few chapters, the details of all of that disappeared, much to my disappointment. It’s those little details that really make a story come alive. There is a sequel, but I will not be reading it. I’m satisfied with the way the first one ended. I feel like with a little more work, some editing, and revision, this could potentially be a publishable work of writing and gain a wider audience of readers.
I love the connection between Nico and Khloe and I’m happy they are going to try and make it work. I felt like this was an introduction to their story. Also the societal divisions (slaves, pets, etc.) is pretty messed up…
Please oml this book (its on wattpad) is literally my comfort book and the book that I will forever and always recommend. The slow burn is just amazing and the writing is outstanding considering it was written when the author was only 13! Greatest book, I love it. <3
Yeah, as nice as the story is, and it's a free read even, I cannot love this book. A lot of horrific stuff happens and it's just waved away as normal, which I suppose in this world it is, but it's also not something I can support even in fiction.
Like, I believe it, too, to some extent, but I always hate it when every supernatural baddie looks down on humans as nothing but cattle or hunting game, They get enslaved, and when humans are doing nothing to change that situation, I just can't accept it. Call it whatever you like, but I kept thinking some kinda rebellion would be happening, but no. The best we get is Nico feeling sorry for humans every now and then, and because he falls in love with Khloe wants her to live and be free, but doesn't extend this to other humans.
The way people are treated is deplorable. In my head, just to accept that I read all of the first book, I merged this story with another I read, and basically, all/most of the vampires are killed/brought to heel. In that story, humans become aware of shape shifters and other supernatural creatures, there's a war of sorts, and dragons (dragons!!!) divide the land into territories (7) and take over so everything is calm. It's not 100% perfect either because a couple of those dragons are tyrants that deserve a quick and painful death, but it's a lot better than this world because that is not universal, and the other dragons at least openly feel distaste and want to change the situation, but territories. It's no different from our own world, where you can't do anything about an oppressive government, but most of the world has freedom. Even if people, specifically humans, rebel, the dragons don't care so everyone has to learn to play nice.
I kept imagining someone coming up and rebelling or something, but the vampires are too powerful and have literally been breeding humans to be weaker, we also don't know how long it's been or exactly when this is taking place so I wonder how humans just let this all happen. I hate the status quo in this world. If someone can tell me they fight against it in book 2 (though I read the first six chapters and the final chapter of that book and just don't see it) please let me know. I hate not finishing a story once I start it.
This book is really good and worth reading! The writer has a very nice way of describing. And I really enjoyed the way she described love, she described it in an equal way some writers fail to do this. Recommend this book totally!
Just smile and nod everyone, smile and nod 😃 Wattpad is my guilty pleasure and I read this book so fast, it was good in a way where you almost feel embarrassed to say it was good.
I am well aware that when Vampire's Pet was first published on Wattpad that the author was 13yrs old. Lemme just get the out of the way, first and foremost.
Something I didn't mind was that we got dual POV—Khloe's & Nico's.
Something I absolutely hated about this book was the overuse of the term "slave(s)"—personally, I think the word "servant" would have been better. All "slaves" are human males within the vampire castle. Human females are called "pets".
The author has updated the story, but not really in terms of editing it to make it better. The characters are alright, but she does a lot of "telling and not showing". An example of this is midway through the novel. Nico and Khloe are watching a meteor shower. They have thirty minutes before the shower begins. Instead of showing us the things that Khloe was doing from her POV, we are told what she did in that timeframe from Nico's. Told. Not shown. He states how she played with a rabbit he caught for her and how she climbed a tree and laughed. But we don't actually get to read her doing it. We're just told she did it.
Giving this book three stars is generous of me because I am a sucker for a vampire story (pun intended). I doubt I'll ever re-read this book, but I will read book two and the story about Doe and Xander. (Xander is Nico's brother, and Doe is his pet.)
I will end this review by putting the only two quotes I genuinely liked from this novel, both from Nico.
"I don't think even the stars can help grant my wish."
"I want you so bad. I want to wake up every morning with you in my arms. I want to live each day with you by my side as my equal. I want you to live the way you want to live, doing the things you want to do for as long as you want. I want to dance with you under the stars. I want to find out all of the little things that you like, all of the things that make you smile. I want you."
I read this when I was like 13, which was also my peak Wattpad era and let me tell you, I absolutely devoured this but since I was young enough, I have the excuse that I didn't know better about the messed up world hierarchy and the main couple living in a bubble BUT if I am being honest, the romance was something an insecure 13-year-old girl (me) would fantasize about.
A vampire dude who looks cold but is nice and cares about me without us having to go through bullyXvictim trope? That was something new since most Wattpad fiction were bullyXvictim at that time termed as "enemies to lovers" which I never got the hype about.
I would have loved to see a rebellion against the vampires by the humans and more character dynamics AND the girl being smol and the vampire dude being massive is weird to me now but I thought it was cute at that time since Wattpad had influenced me all my life. The story did revolve around the main characters but this book is filled with nostalgia for me and it was one of the first books I actually completed reading in Wattpad AND read the 2nd book too.
Overall, this review is a very biased one and I don't care. 3.5 stars from me and I am still in love with Nicholas.
I loved the story and couldn't put it down. Maybe it's not Lord of the Rings or a New York Times Best-seller, but I like to read things that are fun or interesting, and this was. I also like the fact that the romance was romance, not necessarily leading to anything. It was just an enjoyable book and it's definitely something I will read again.
I do find it interesting that so many people leaving reviews were upset about the way that the humans were treated like animals by the vampires and they kept expecting or hoping for an uprising to 'put the vampires in their place', but that comes down to pure human arrogance. We treat animals exactly as the vampires treated the humans---as lesser beings. If animals try to rebel, we shoot them or beat them almost without hesitation, but turned on its head, the idea is suddenly horrifying to so many, as if by being human, we are somehow better. I think it was an interesting plot idea and certainly different.
Трябва да призная, че останах очарована. Това беше парче, което намерих от случайна реклама, и дори не знаех дали е истинска книга. Но след като кликнах на рекламата, изтеглих приложението, намерих заглавието...оказа се, че е платена игра-книга?(което ме наведе на мисълта да я потърся в книжен вариант). След много търсене .... Оказа се, че я има безплатно разпространена. И започна четенето!
Оказа се скрито бижу. Историята на Клоуи (17), която е "домашен любимец" за вампири бива купена от Николас (400+), за да му бъде храна. Света на pets е жесток и труден, но Клоуи бързо разбира, че господаря й е доста лежерен относно правилата и има душа.
Някак си, въпреки че момичето беше доста страхливо и странно, успях да я харесам. Докато Нико на моменти ми беше малко недосетлив за годините си.
Препоръчвам, ако търсите нещо леко и (сравнително) бързо четиво.
I very much enjoyed it. I'm a big person on fiction and fantasy but i did not expect to enjoy it at all. It was lovely and i first read it on wattpad. Though i enjoyed it there is a few issues i have.
A lot of it is with the ways Vampires treat the humans, and it comes off as normal, and the power Xander and Nico have could easily stop alot of things but they dont really seem to do anything, yes they are against it but they dont do anything.
And with Khole, she acts like her friends and her dad were doing wrong, which is horrible considering she was beaten and hurt by Vampires.
Also the main couple dont really seem like they would be the main couple in the story. Personally Xander and Doe's relationship seem more like a main couple, and you definitely see that in the books Prey and Predator.
I want to say I loved the story. It was unpredictable, it was romantic, it was full of emotional scenes. But I can't fall in love with the female main character, Khloe. She's basically a terrified, simple, unintelligent, clingy, weakling of a human who lives to love and serve Nico. Which is fine, I guess, since that's their dynamic. Nico, at least, develops. But she's basically a sex doll - literally a cute, pliable, no-backbone woman with big boobs and is a willing bedmate LOL I guess guys like that? I just needed to fall in love with her and I didn't. That said, it wasn't a waste of time reading this book. It was entertaining. (This is the same review I posted on the second book, Love & Loss, since it's basically the same story and Vampire's Pet is Part 1)
5⭐️ Ugh I LOVE THIS BOOK SO MUCH. When Cannoness announced that this book was going to be in paperback, I without hesitation brought the book on Amazon. I first read Vampires Pet on wattpad four years ago and I ATE it up (and still do). Once I got it in the mail, I just had to reread it and annotate it! I love stories with vampires and humans together. Khloe’s and Nico’s story is truly amazing and I just love everything about them and this book. And I’m definitely picturing Nico as a hot ass vampire. I just love on he treats her good from the minute he got her and loved to see their feelings for one another begin to grow.
(4.5 stars) Okay so… I soooo didn’t except to like this book. At. All. I read it off of wattpad. Which is automatically setting the bar pretty low. But I really liked it, I enjoyed the romance, the concept that I’ve toyed around with in my mind for a long time the idea of humans being kept as pets. I’ve of course heard of stories written about the concept but this is the first one that I actually read. The writing was easy to follow, and although the main character is a bit timid at times, I find it important and a good show of mind manipulation.
Honestly, I don’t really know how to feel about this book. It was definitely entertaining and it’s a slow burn romance on wattpad. The ending usually defines the book for me and the ending was good. I’ll definitely be reading book 2. Though I must add, it did take forever for the two characters to get together. I mean if you have the patience to read that, go for the book. The chapters aren’t very long either, which I don’t really mind. The author is definitely talented to write a whole book at 13!
Read this book in a day. It was a lovely simple read. Interesting story. A world full of vampires who enslaved humans using them for whatever they want. A vampire falls in love with his "pet" . The "Pet" falls in love with its master and they want to change the world to be a better place for vampires and humans. Overall a decent read. Very YA (young adult) right now but there are two more books.
Deff needs some editing for typos and other stuff but for a young author, you're on your way to greatness cannoness!
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
The world in this book is pretty messed up and at first it was hard to read about humans as pets and slaves (though it totally makes sense for vampires to dominate that way).
Thankfully the book quickly moves away from that very harsh behavior and instead becomes easier to read. Overall it is a very quick read with some errors here and there and not the most original plot but non the less enjoyable.
I loved Khloe and Nico together, their story is as sweet as it is interesting.
While the romance is there and the book itself is for the most part well-written, the concept itself is a bit hard to get used to. A good addition to the book would've been how the main characters realized the way that the world was working was wrong and they did all they could to make a change, but that's not the case. However, it's understandable given the book focuses on a mostly shy young woman and a prince.
When I got about half way through this book, I could not bare the thought of it actually ending. Then I discovered Love & Loss and Prey (a book about Xander and Doe).
This book is so enticing. I found myself 10-15 chapters along in it every time I picked it up. It definitely puts me in a trance. The ending definitely threw me for a loop! I cannot wait to finish up Love & Loss to get a full effect of this series!
i read this on wattpad (first time using it) and was addicted. that being said, there were MANY typos and though it’s fiction, technically supported oppression. i got over all this but it’s something to take into consideration. niko and khloe’s character development is so good and the storyline got me hooked from the start. i would recommend but wouldn’t purchase. just download wattpad and read from there!
i know this was written when the author was like 13 or smt (very impressive tho) but i was engageeeed gurl, the plot is really interesting even though it needs some rewriting, but honestly the thing about the whole system of humans being less than vampires, the way khloe and nico's relationship flows i loved it!!! that's why i give it 3 stars, would actually loooove to read it again when it's rewritten <3
3.5⭐️ Keeping in mind this was initially written by the author when they were 13, it was quite good! The grammar errors were easy to over look when the storyline sucked 🧛♂️🩸 you in! It was a well executed slow burn 🔥 romance. I look forward to reading book 2 (Love & Loss) to find out the rest of Khloe’s story.
This book was amazing. It made me very interested in reading fiction books. I did not know that fiction books could be so captivating. My expression in English started to improve thanks to this book I really liked how Khloe and Nicolus relationship smoothly developed. Although while reading it I wish the author had provided more information about their family background.
Alright, for the author to start this when they were 13, I am FOR IT. Wasn’t sure how I was going to feel about it at first, but I’m definitely anticipating what happens in the next book. Love the character development. Would have like to see more of a transition from Xander and Doe, but they’re not our main characters lol