This is interesting for a couple different reasons, but I'm going to be general before I get detailed. The writing was engaging but not complex. The best example of this done well, and my go-to example, is Isaac Asimov: the writing was simple but beautiful, engaging, and belied the complex ideas...
Alien Pets is a novel about, well, Alien Pets. Contained within are stories that are warm and fuzzy, hilarious and downright heartbreaking (though most are on the lighter side). As is the case with most anthologies, some of the stories just couldn’t hold my interest (the more techie sci-fi based one...