In The Lives Of Puppets

Just finished reading "In The Lives Of Puppets" by T.J. Klune, published by TOR Books.
"In The Lives of Puppets" is a a LGBTQ+ retelling of The Adventures of Pinocchio. Think of it as Pinocchio meets Wall-E meets The Matrix.
Victor is Pinnochio, of course, with the tables turned. Gio, an android, is Geppetto. Love story one. "I wish you were real." Androids and humanity - love/hate. Victor, the only human in the story, manages to become a creator like his "father." All is not well - things go horribly wrong when Victor rescues and repairs HAP - a human hunting android. The love/hate between humanity and machines is not fixed like magic. But, then things take a different turn altogether. There is a mishmash of pop culture allusions sometimes - a naked Tinkerbell from Peter Pan? the Wizard of Oz's Emerald City and Oz (Gio), and also the "City of Electric Dreams" - Philip K. Dick's "Do Robots Dream of Electric Sheep."
Now I'm going to deduct a star because of there are some over preachy sections about sex and gender being a gender.
What makes "In The Lives Of Puppets" a poignant story is that it presents loss and the possibility of recovering and rebuilding family and love anew.
Strongly Recommended.
Four Stars.




https://www.amazon.com/Lives-Puppets-...