My heart broke for him and the riot of emotions he felt during and following Gio’s abduction. Vic is a sweet soul and brilliant inventor with a deep capacity to love. Victor may be the odd man out, but he’s an integral piece that holds this family together. I enjoyed getting to know all the characters we meet throughout the story. Klune never fails to bring together an endearing found family to love that’s made up of unique, quirky parts. Like the fairy tales of old, In the Lives of Puppets is a cautionary tale, a riveting exploration of humanity’s legacy through the eyes of a young inventor who is determined to rescue the missing part of the only family he’s ever known. REVIEW: “ Sometimes, it’s the smallest things that can change everything when you least expect it.”

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.Īlong 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? Gio is captured and taken back to his old laboratory in the City of Electric Dreams. When Hap unwittingly alerts robots from Gio’s former life to their whereabouts, the family is no longer 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. Genre: Fantasy, Science Fiction, Lgbtqiap+, RetellingĪBOUT : 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.

Until You by T.J. Klune