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In the Lives of Puppets

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Readers who loved Klune’s previous works will find plenty of the author’s trademark charm, heart, and bittersweet. Like any good fable, the first 100 pages or so introduces us to the cast of characters and their circumstances.

I did feel less convinced by the romance than with other TJK books, it didn’t flow as easily as Hugo and Wallace or was as intense as Ox and Joe. Vic glanced down to see him picking up the fallen pieces of scrap and moving them to the base of the pile.This is in the classic storytelling style, so expect meanderings and adventures on the way to the destination. Laced with the touch of so many beautiful quotes - quotes galore that I would have highlighted so much more than I wanted, because it resonated so very much with me. It is arguably the most ambitious novel I’ve written, but I never lost sight of what’s important: queer storytelling, and the power people have when they come together, even if more than a few of them are made of spare parts. While this is being pitched as Pinocchio meets Swiss Family Robinson meets Wall-E, and I saw all of those stories within this one, the story that kept popping into *MY* mind was The Wizard of Oz ! I didn’t understand the obsession about sex and bodily functions and fluids and I found most of the characters extremely annoying.

And with the light references to a few key points that stood out for me and my memory - 'the fox and the cat' made me chuckle, the Coachman was a clever idea, the floating whale was a chilling touch, the Blue Fairy was gifted with such a haunting yet chilling sadness and the other characters - I just don't know how to tell you about them.

Kllune lo ha vuelto a hacer, ha roto mi corazón pero también lo ha llenado de un sentimiento cálido y feliz. Or from his unexpected feelings that he started to nurture for HAP - drawn to him, for comfort, for understanding, for that one connection of semblance he had to human features.

And I’ll just go ahead and throw this out there: In the Lives of Puppets is better than Under the Whispering Door and as good as (if not a teensy bit better than) The House in the Cerulean Sea.Two metal hatches on either side of her base opened to reveal a dozen metal tentacles ending in various medical tools should the need to operate arise. But the humour, the found-family theme, and the “raconteur-ial” storytelling style makes this quite a cosy fantasy. Circuit boards were a rare find these days, and though he’d wanted to pull it out when he first saw it a few weeks before, he hadn’t dared.

Inspired by Carlo Collodi's The Adventures of Pinocchio, and like Swiss Family Robinson meets Wall-E, In the Lives of Puppets is a masterful stand-alone fantasy adventure from the beloved author who brought you The House in the Cerulean Sea and Under the Whispering Door. A part of me wanted it to play throughout in the background of Henning’s performance – it was so stirring! 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.

There is a very Wizard of Oz feel to the story as Vic and his friends progress through the countryside on their way to the City of Electric Dreams. 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?

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