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?
- I received a free Ebook from the publisher and Netgalley in exchange of an honest review
- This book comes out April 25 2023
omg. Oh my god. I love this book. Sometimes you just meet characters and fall in love with all of them and this is exactly what happened here. TJ Klune has a talent for giving us a unique and lovable cast in all of his books. I was so invested in them, alot more then i expected. And the best part is that he makes them so funny. His humor is my favorite type, i found myself laughing out loud so many times. The mix between an anxious vacuum, a sadistic nurse and the human between them was so perfect. Their interaction gave me life, i would read a million other books with just them hanging out. This was such a treat. Also, my baby Rambo was everything. I loved him so freaking MUCH. Vic and Hap were also fantastic and adorable and made my heart so happy. Extra points for the romance being queer, and more extra point for the asexual representation.
When it comes to the story itself, I enjoyed it! When i read Cerulean sea and whispering doors almost back to back, i was a bit scared by the similarities in both stories (unhappy men finds himself in a peculiar little house where he meets a fascinating man with who he falls in love and finds a new found family of colorful characters that shows his the true meaning of live) and some of those elements were found again here, but he added this quest element that i truly loved. It let us explore more of this world he had created. The ending sent me in an emotional rollercoaster and i am not complaining about it. As always, the writing was perfect, i think is style is a perfect match to my taste.
I will read everything he writes.
IN THE LIVES OF PUPPETS : 5/5
Sarah in Zombieland 
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