The four of them live happily until Victor finds a decommissioned android, Hap, in the scrap yard. Victor’s best friends are a Roomba named Rambo, and a robot nurse aptly named Nurse Ratched. Puppets is the story of Gio, a lonely an living in a forest sanctuary that would make the Swiss Family Robinson envious, as he raises his son, Victor. He truly is one of the best out there as far as creating spectacular characters who you only grow to love as the book progresses. He paints such a wonderful picture with his storytelling and his characters. Klune is already an auto-buy author for me, and Puppets has really reminded me why. In the Lives of Puppets by TJ Klune takes Pinocchio, Terminator, and Wall-E and creates a unique story about found family in the time of the apocalypse and makes it whimsical in only the way Klune can. So together, the rest of Vic's assembled family must journey across an unforgiving and otherworldly country to rescue Gio from decommission, or worse, reprogramming.Īlong the way to save Gio, amid conflicted feelings of betrayal and affection for Hap, Vic must decide for himself: Can he accept love with strings attached?Īuthor TJ Klune invites you deep into the heart of a peculiar forest and on the extraordinary journey of a family assembled from spare parts.I received this advanced copy from NetGalley, and I’m leaving this review voluntarily. Gio is captured and taken back to his old laboratory in the City of Electric Dreams. When Hap unwittingly alerts robots from Gio's former life to their whereabouts, the family is no longer hidden and safe.

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. In a strange little home built into the branches of a grove of trees, live three robots-fatherly inventor android Giovanni Lawson, a pleasantly sadis 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. Enter for a chance to win an ARC of IN THE LIVES OF PUPPETS by TJ Klune! 50 winners will be chosen.

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