Reviews tagging 'Abandonment'

In the Lives of Puppets by TJ Klune

18 reviews

hayleyvharrington's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective medium-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Kidnapping, Child death, Genocide, Animal death, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Abandonment, Acephobia/Arophobia, Confinement, Dementia, and Fire/Fire injury

dev921's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Grief, Confinement, Abandonment, Animal death, and Death

augustar14's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

TJ Klune never disappoints. This book is no exception.
Klune does an incredible job of creating a character (or characters) that have so many unlikable qualities, but that you ultimately can't help but fall in love with. This book truly embodies the concept of loving others for who they are now, not who they used to be, and not letting one's past define them.
This quirky found family goes on an adventure to save one of their own, because when you love someone, you don't leave them behind. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Death of parent, Suicide, Body horror, Confinement, Fire/Fire injury, Genocide, Blood, Death, Grief, and Violence

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Animal death, Kidnapping, and Abandonment

Minor: Dementia and Medical content

mo345's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, Grief, War, Fire/Fire injury, Murder, Sexual content, Confinement, and Medical content

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Abandonment, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, and Kidnapping

Minor: Animal death

kshertz's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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? No

5.0

Listen, TJ Klune can do no wrong in my book. It’s pretty different from his other books but I still really loved it. I fell in love immediately with these robots especially. I rooted for them, laughed and cried with them. Everyone should read this book. There’s so many great things about humanity as well. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Blood, Death, Injury/Injury detail, and Abandonment

inirac's review

adventurous funny hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

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

3.5

Really enjoyed the first half of this book, but I feel the storytelling got confused/sloppy. Per usual, Klune did not go where I expected with the narrative, but this was the first time I wasn't really a fan of what he did. I think there's a lot of potential

to draw comparisons with dementia, caring for a partner/parent, and exploration of what it means to have a soul

, but some of the themes brought up in the middle were just re-explored the same way at the end. There was strange repetition of revelations of the past of two characters that were much less surprising the second time around, for obvious reasons. I like that there isn't a clean cut happy ending, but I am definitely left unsatisfied. 

Can we talk a bit more about how 2 characters kind of committed genocide?

The world building was successful to a point, but I felt like Klune broke his own rules enough that why bother setting them? For example the sexual + toilet humor was entertaining the first few times, but got old by the middle of the book. If these machines learn based on repeated interactions, then why wouldn't they learn after the first 100 times that Vic is embarrassed by these 'private' conversations?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent and Genocide

Moderate: Abandonment and Violence

Minor: Animal death and Sexual content

maryellen's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Abandonment, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Blood, and Death

jessreadreceipts's review against another edition

adventurous challenging 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dementia and Grief

Moderate: Genocide, Death, and Death of parent

Minor: Abandonment, Panic attacks/disorders, and Violence