Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

In the Lives of Puppets by TJ Klune

50 reviews

little_miss_book_'s review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

4.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Violence and Death of parent

puali's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Loved, laughed and cried so hard. I’m not malfunctioning, just being human… 
What a wonderful book! 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence and Murder

Minor: Child death, Death of parent, Grief, and Blood

20sidedbi's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Genocide, and Murder

Moderate: Kidnapping, Fire/Fire injury, and Abandonment

emispa's review against another edition

emotional funny medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent

kathleencoughlin's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief, Murder, Death of parent, and Genocide

Minor: Acephobia/Arophobia

bea_evans's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.75

Klune’s books tend to stick with me. They’re emotionally weighty. I never read any of the Pinocchio stories and barely remember parts of the cartoon, which I think I must have seen, so I had feels but not really sure how the storyline kept to the source material. Be brave!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent, Genocide, Kidnapping, and Grief

tamara_joy's review against another edition

adventurous emotional reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Death of parent, and Genocide

Minor: Death, Blood, and Sexual content

n00basaur's review against another edition

adventurous dark medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent

Moderate: Violence

alliebookworm's review against another edition

dark reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

I wanted to love this one as much as I love TJ Klune’s other books. I love his common themes of loving someone for all of who they are, faults included. But BOY it’s hard to connect to a robot world where the stakes and faults are BIG and entirely not relatable… at least Rambo and Nurse Ratched are my everything, even if the other characters are tricky.

Loved the

representation of autism, speech impediments, and non-binary characters

. Didn’t love the

fact that we help someone move on from literal constant murder and that they sometimes don’t remember you for all your love

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent

Moderate: Violence and Genocide

lonelylooper's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death of parent, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Violence, Grief, Genocide, Panic attacks/disorders, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Torture, Blood, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Animal death, Sexual content, and Animal cruelty