In the Lives of Puppets

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We have Nurse Ratched, (a robot designed to care for humans), Rambo, (originally a vacuum), Gio and his new "son", Vic.

Well, if you've grown up watching Disney's Pinocchio, if you're familiar enough with the characters - then this will be a treat for you, and honestly needs no explanation - save that it is all that the original story was - but with a unique futuristic spin to it. First of all, I thought the humor was at points a little childish and a little desperate (especially in the middle portion). They may be robots, but they are a family who want to stay together, they care and show their humanity. Readers who loved Klune's previous works will find plenty of the author's trademark charm, heart, and bittersweet.

People smiling and blushing when they saw each other, doing things they might not normally do, all in the name of love. Readers who loved Klune’s previous works will find plenty of the author’s trademark charm, heart, and bittersweet. There were also some Wizard of Oz vibes for me with the destination journey of one human with their three trusted friends.

When Victor, Rambo and Nurse Ratched discover a decommissioned and damaged android who they name Hap, after his visible letters H. Until one day, Victor repairs an android named Hap, and Gio is captured and taken to the City of Electric Dreams, forcing Victor and the robots to embark on a dangerous journey to save Gio. Victor was the one who fixed Nurse Ratched and Rambo and he is always on the lookout for another machine he can reactivate. The concept was good, taking ideas from The Wizard of Oz, Pinocchio, Robots (the movie) Frankenstein (it’s alive! Quiet this, a solitary moment in an imperfect world where existence did not need to be proven or earned.

This would make a great movie one day, when humanity have learned to accept different and is able to appreciate it. Along the way, you fall in love with the characters and their world, and it feels like you are really there, immersed in the wonder of it all. Inspired by Carlo Collodi's The Adventures of Pinocchio, In the Lives of Puppets is a masterful standalone fantasy adventure from the author who brought you The House in the Cerulean Sea and Under the Whispering Door.

Being queer himself, TJ believes it's important—now more than ever—to have accurate, positive, queer representation in stories. This is a very twisty tale that is loosely (very loosely) based on the story of Pinocchio and there are some clever allusions to it which pays tribute to the inspiration. Inspired by Carlo Collodi’s The Adventures of Pinocchio , In the Lives of Puppets is a masterful standalone fantasy adventure from the beloved author who brought you The House in the Cerulean Sea and Under the Whispering Door . Today I want to share with you all the review of a highly anticipated book that I was lucky enough to preview!There was one scene, a flashback to what Hap did in the past, that finally put me off finishing this book. If you threw together Pinocchio, Martha Wells’ The Murderbot Diaries, Becky Chambers’ The Monk and Robot series, the setting of Fallout: New Vegas, the droids of Star Wars, the characters of The Brave Little Toaster, and the quest of The Wizard of Oz into a pot, you might have a stew that kinda sorta resembles In the Lives of Puppets. This review probably makes no sense - but, I suppose that is to be expected, when it comes to my reviews for a T. The day Vic salvages and repairs an unfamiliar android labelled “HAP,” he learns of a shared dark past between Hap and Gio - a past spent hunting humans. Most Anticipated from BookPage • Goodreads • The Nerd Daily • Paste Magazine • LitReactor • OverDrive • LGBTQ Reads • Tor.

Who doesn't love a nurse who can engage in an empathy protocol but truly has a murderous streak with the sole goal of drilling? Worth mentioning is the narrator Danny Henning who does a marvelous job with these wonderful characters just like he did with Cerulean which is still my favorite of Klune's novels. In a strange little home built into the branches of a grove of trees, live three robots - fatherly inventor android Giovanni Lawson, a pleasantly sadistic nurse machine, and a small vacuum desperate for love and attention.My thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for an advanced reader copy in exchange for an honest review. Rather than feeling like a tacked on element, it's organic and an essential element of the overall tale. I genuinely loved this narrative, the idea of living in the woods in treehouses was perfect but obviously there wouldn’t be a story if that was all there was! Vic squinted up at the top of the metal heap, his shoulder-length dark hair pulled back and tied off with a leather strap. Android inventor Giovanni Lawson finds an abandoned building in a remote, old forest and transforms it into somewhere to live but being so isolated he’s lonely.