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. Victor Lawson, a human, lives there too. They're a family, 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.When Hap unwittingly alerts robots from Gio's former life to their whereabouts, the family is no longer hidden and safe. Gio is captured and taken back to his old laboratory in the City of Electric Dreams. 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.Along 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?Author TJ Klune invites you deep into the heart of a peculiar forest and on the extraordinary journey of a family assembled from spare parts.
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In the Lives of Puppets
By TJ Klune
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. Victor Lawson, a human, lives there too. They're a family, 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.When Hap unwittingly alerts robots from Gio's former life to their whereabouts, the family is no longer hidden and safe. Gio is captured and taken back to his old laboratory in the City of Electric Dreams. 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.Along 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?Author TJ Klune invites you deep into the heart of a peculiar forest and on the extraordinary journey of a family assembled from spare parts.
Popular Reviews(3)
Reviewed by kenman, have i just been unlucky recently or what? i gotta admit though - any author who threatens me with positive queer representation is likely not writing a book i want to read.
Reviewed by LeaIch habe schon mehrere Bücher von T.J. Klune gelesen und muss sagen ‚In the Lives of Puppets‘ ist eines seiner schwächeren Werke. Obwohl die Charaktere in dem Buch wie immer wahnsinnig tolle Persönlichkeiten haben konnte ich mich mit der Thematik der Roboter einfach nicht anfreunden und es hat sich beim Lesen manchmal etwas gezogen. Daher sind 3 Sterne glaube ich passend.
Reviewed by James LückAlright would give 4,5 stars. Really good the middle was a bit slow, but the ending. Oh beautiful, did I cry.... Yes. Honestly finished it like half an hour ago, I'm not ok