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.
Victor Lawson, a human, lives there too. They're a family, 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. When Hap unwittingly alerts robots from Gio's former life to their
whereabouts, the family is no longer hidden and safe. Gio is captured and
taken back to his old laboratory in the City of Electric Dreams. 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.
Along 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? Inspired by Carlo Collodi's The Adventures of Pinocchio, In the
Lives of Puppets is a masterful standalone fantasy adventure from the author
who brought you The House in the Cerulean Sea and Under the Whispering Door.
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.
Victor Lawson, a human, lives there too. They're a family, 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. When Hap unwittingly alerts robots from Gio's former life to their
whereabouts, the family is no longer hidden and safe. Gio is captured and
taken back to his old laboratory in the City of Electric Dreams. 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.
Along 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? Inspired by Carlo Collodi's The Adventures of Pinocchio, In the
Lives of Puppets is a masterful standalone fantasy adventure from the author
who brought you The House in the Cerulean Sea and Under the Whispering Door.
