They're striving to be perfect for their owners with the knowledge they will be killed if they are not. So they're all aware they'll be put down and killed and have anxiety. The imperfect pets are sent back and taken to the 'Red Room' and put down. He also sneaks into her room to put a collar on her 'so she'll remember where she belongs'. 'Charming, maybe if you're trying to recreate the old South.' So they're aware of history enough to know what they look like they're doing and why Eight shouldn't be calling her buyer Master.

'They're sixteen, I can assure you they're fully grown.' Especially since these are UNDERAGED girls grown in a lab. The book uses the word 'bred' so much it's uncomfortable. Thank Cthulhu that Canada canonically made breeding for these people and having them illegal. I saw a few people saying this is a young adult Handmaid's Tale, it's very much the off-brand bootleg diet soda version of that. Basically these topics are really nasty, the book does not detail them properly, but the book includes them so we have people who are raped and people who have their babies killed, but it's glossed over and played as no big deal. My review sounds like I'm constantly saying yes but no. Now to contradict myself further by saying both it is very graphic content and it is very vague and nondescript, it is also as gross as possible while not describing it enough. It doesn't really go deeper into that most of the time. People rape their pets and that's just how it is. People are pets and that's just how it is. They're there, but they're not fixated upon.

Well these things are very disturbing, the book kind of glosses over them. For example there is pedophilia, there is infant murder, and there are things like rape, and the general sex trafficking one can expect in this kind of book. What is there past that? This book is targeting young teenagers and so it both has really graphic content, but described very vaguely. So, basically we push past the eugenics and slavery. The hottest craze among the top 1% has been human pets, that's the book's premise.

This is a great horror but this is a ROMANCE. Oh, this is going to be a trip to put my feelings about this book into words. With that we have: eugenics! We've entered eugenics from the very first scene. Genetically perfected humans are being sold as pets.

Perfected by Kate Jarvik Birch