Daniel Henning managed to give each character a very unique and recognizable voice, though I did find some voices a bit annoying. Being queer himself, Klune believes it's important—now more than ever—to have accurate, positive queer representation in stories.

TJ Klune has created an enchanting tale of Pinocchio in the end times, offering up hard truths alongside humor, kindness, love and, most important, hope - P. I’m not a big fan of fantasy and sci-fi, so it says something that I already know this will be one of my favorites for this year. Narrator Daniel Henning does a phenomenal job capturing Gio’s fatherliness and Vic’s early naivete, and he positively shines as the heartless, bloodthirsty Nurse Ratched and the anxiety-ridden robot vacuum Rambo.TJ KLUNE is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling, Lambda Literary Award-winning author of The House in the Cerulean Sea , Under the Whispering Door , In the Lives of Puppets , and the Green Creek Series for adults, the Extraordinaries Series for teens , and more. It wasn’t safe by any stretch of the imagination, but Vic had been doing this for years and hadn’t fallen yet.

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. Las aventuras de Pinocho' de Carlo Collodi sirve como base de este retelling pero en un mundo donde las maquinas reinan, sin embargo, creo que el autor logra entretejer detalles o referencias de la obra original y entregarnos una historia diferente y original.

Although I do admire what TJ Klune has done here, somehow it doesn’t hook me in as his other books do. About halfway through the story, it changed from the peaceful, yet intriguing house in the woods to a quest. Controversy aside, what I absolutely couldn't stand about THITCS was its saccharine sweetness, which we get some of here as well, but wayyy toned down. A much larger robot stood still next to the vacuum, watching it have a meltdown for the millionth time. I genuinely loved this narrative, the idea of living in the woods in treehouses was perfect but obviously there wouldn’t be a story if that was all there was!

Next thing he knows, androids are surrounding his home and GIO is taken prisoner to the City of Electric Dreams. Under the Whispering Door was my favorite of the "trilogy" but they all have such similar themes, characters, and romances that three books in, it just gets a little tiring instead of new and exciting.But I think I should start with some of the issues I had, get the nasty business out of the way, you know? 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. Be it man or machine, Victor thought, to love something meant loving the ghost inside, to be haunted by it. TJ Klune has created an enchanting tale of Pinocchio in the end times, offering up hard truths alongside humor, kindness, love and, most important, hope. There were also some Wizard of Oz vibes for me with the destination journey of one human with their three trusted friends.