01-09-2024, 03:02 PM
In the Lives of Puppets by T.J. Klune
Victor and his father Gio live in the forest in a treehouse. Victor likes to go to the nearby scrap heaps to salvage parts. He's already built a healthcare robot named Nurse Ratchet and vacuum named Rambo. You can guess the source. After more chapters you learn that Gio is also an Android. Victor is the only human of the group. One day Victor finds another robot in the scrap piles that looks incredibly human, too. We come to find out that the new robot, Hap, used to hunt down humans as his sole mission. It turns out when Hap was found, a bit of blood was spilled that alerted the authorities there was a human in the area that needed to be dwelt with. More robots arrive to track down Victor. Bad things happen. Victor and the robots set off on a quest to make things right.
Also Victor finds himself attracted to this roguishly attractive robot human killer and vice versa. It's all very confusing.
The book shoots for quirky humor on many instances which I find annoying. It was also incredibly slow. And as a human instead of a robot, I kept coming back to the question of what happens to the humans if there is only one human left?
Victor and his father Gio live in the forest in a treehouse. Victor likes to go to the nearby scrap heaps to salvage parts. He's already built a healthcare robot named Nurse Ratchet and vacuum named Rambo. You can guess the source. After more chapters you learn that Gio is also an Android. Victor is the only human of the group. One day Victor finds another robot in the scrap piles that looks incredibly human, too. We come to find out that the new robot, Hap, used to hunt down humans as his sole mission. It turns out when Hap was found, a bit of blood was spilled that alerted the authorities there was a human in the area that needed to be dwelt with. More robots arrive to track down Victor. Bad things happen. Victor and the robots set off on a quest to make things right.
Also Victor finds himself attracted to this roguishly attractive robot human killer and vice versa. It's all very confusing.
The book shoots for quirky humor on many instances which I find annoying. It was also incredibly slow. And as a human instead of a robot, I kept coming back to the question of what happens to the humans if there is only one human left?
As a matter of fact, my anger does keep me warm