Android Persistence room: "Cannot figure out how to read this field from a cursor"

I'm trying to create a relation between two database tables using the new Android Persistence Room Library. I looked at the documentation and tried to implement the example found at https://developer.android.com/reference/android/arch/persistence/room/Relation.html:

 @Entity
 public class User {
 @PrimaryKey
     int id;
 }

 @Entity
 public class Pet {
     @PrimaryKey
     int id;
     int userId;
     String name;

 }

 @Dao
 public interface UserDao {
     @Query("SELECT * from User")
     public List<User> loadUser();
 }

 @Dao
 public interface PetDao {
     @Query("SELECT * from Pet")
     public List<Pet> loadUserAndPets();
 }


 public class UserAllPets {
     @Embedded
     public User user;
     @Relation(parentColumn = "user.id", entityColumn = "userId", entity = Pet.class)
     public List pets;
 }

 @Dao
 public interface UserPetDao {
     @Query("SELECT * from User")
     public List<UserAllPets> loadUserAndPets();
 }

I get the following error

    ...error: Cannot figure out how to read this field from a cursor.

in relation to:

 private java.util.List<?> pets;

I would like to point out that I found some things in their docs really confusing. For example the lack of @PrimaryKey and also the fact that the User class is missing the @Entity annotation, although it's supposed to be an entity (as fas as I see it). Did anybody run into the same problem? Thanks a lot in advance