This is the third in a quartet of books Schrefer is writing about apes and their human counterparts. [b:Endangered|13591678|Endangered (Ape Quartet, #1)|Eliot Schrefer|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1339453693s/13591678.jpg|19179750] and [b:Threatened|18222541|Threatened (Ape Quartet, #2)|Eliot Schrefer|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1384382714s/18222541.jpg|25656168] were both short listed for the National Book Award and I loved both of those book. I was less impressed overall with this one. It is different from the other two in that it mostly takes place in America (there is a trip to Indonesia eventually). This book is about wild animals kept as pets and it does an excellent job of highlighting all of the problematic issues with that. I just couldn't connect with the characters as well. This book felt more mechanic, like Schaefer was going through the motions writing it. It may be that it simply suffers in comparison to how much the other books made me feel for both ape and human. This one is missing the beautiful storytelling the other two had particularly in the character development.