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In the Lives of Puppets
- Narrated by: Daniel Henning
- Length: 15 hrs and 21 mins
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Summary
From New York Times bestselling author TJ Klune, In the Lives of Puppets is a queer retelling of the Pinocchio tale, inviting you deep into the heart of a peculiar forest and on the extraordinary journey of a family assembled from spare parts.
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?
Inspired by Carlo Collodi’s The Adventures of Pinocchio, In the Lives of Puppets is a masterful standalone fantasy adventure from the author who brought you The House in the Cerulean Sea and Under the Whispering Door.
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- Grace
- 06-08-23
A great story
A lovely book about humanity and empathy/love - a really good take on tech and identity
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- Elise
- 05-01-24
I think the narration skewed the story a tad
Found this slightly tricky to get into but it is a good read and I enjoyed it.
I think the narration added a more comic tone than it probably needed although it was nice to listen to and very accessible. I’m not saying the narrator was reading soullessly, he did a good job, just couldn’t help but feel he created zany characters where perhaps they could have had more depth.
Overall a good listen (although I don’t think it deserved to beat light bringer in the good read awards)
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- Amazon Customer
- 12-05-23
One to listen to again!
Beautifully written, beautifully narrated - the characters brought to life and related the fragility of love and humanity!
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- Clint Steenveld
- 03-03-24
Creative story and storytelling about connection and loss
The narrator was brilliant! The story managed to be futuristic and modern and so incredibly human all at the same time. A feat, given there is only one human character in the entire book. A new direction for writing about the heart, about love, intimacy and loss. I admire the author’s ability to elicit emotion in the reader when the characters are all, but one, machines.
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- Anonymous User
- 05-04-24
Underwhelming
The story starts out quite well but becomes predictable and honestly, difficult to get through in it's entirety. The narration is average at best, for some reason they chose to make the main character sound like a whiney child while other characters are a pain in the ear at points. There are some comical points in the first part of the book but again, it's over-done and you would be forgiven for rolling your eyes when a character repeats a phrase you've heard for the umpteenth time. Overall, just a bit disappointing.
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- Ezzy
- 09-05-23
Brilliantly wrote
Not disappointed all all TJ Klune at his best! A must have read for all!
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- Kindle Customer
- 09-02-24
Sentient robot vacuum
Not as good as his other book I’ve read but that vacuum was special, the characters were the best parts tbh
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- Anonymous User
- 17-08-23
Another absolutely gorgeous story…
The combination of the story telling by T J Klune & the narration of Daniel Henning is just stunning. I’ve listening to a lot of books now, by this author & I can’t get enough. I feel a bit sad, at the end of each one.
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- Anonymous User
- 28-04-23
Hope is a thing with butterfly wings
A wondrous story about chosen family, humanity and love. This epic adventure is sure to wrap all T. J. Klune lovers, in a warm, rainbow coloured blanket. And Daniel Henning's narration, was once again, stellar.
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- Leah-Ann Thompson
- 10-09-23
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I'm going to be truthfully honest with this i struggle to get into this book. I couldn't get my head around it being robots and not puppets. It took a while for me to get going in this book. Once it got going and i got into this book, i enjoyed it very much.
A young boy named vic lives with 3 robots. They find another robot in the scarp yard. They bring him back to life. One day, they end up having a visit, and vics father is taken back to the city. Vic and the other go to find him. And bring him home. They go through different adventures on their way. I love the relationship vic has built with these robots. How they all stick together to get through everything. i enjoyed the narrator of this book though
Sont be out off by my saying. i struggled to get into this book. It is a brilliant book indeed. Please, please, give this book ago. It is so worth it
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