Lin's Perspective

Goodreads Choice Award Winner for Best Science Fiction (2023)

Right, let me start by saying this I loved The House in the Cerulean Sea and it is, in fact, one of my favourite books as well as Under the Whispering Door. Therefore, Klune became a cherished author for me. However, when I started reading In the Lives of Puppets I was appalled and baffled, to say the least. If I had a child and they were told they had to read this book for school, I would be suing the f school for child indoctrination, sexualization and exposing children to unsolicited sexual, LGBT, gender and whatnot content…

From the beginning, I was intrigued, but for the mere 10% of it after that, it kept getting from bad to hideous. The only main topics were sex, asexuality, bodily fluids and weird and tasteless jokes about those topics.

Sexualizing machines/androids and glorifying a “relationship” between a human and a machine? Just adding to the neverending list of unaddressed mental health issues and feeding it to the public as if it is something normal should we??

Just, please take a moment to read the following and get an idea what the content is like:

“…Victor is happy, his oxytocin levels are rising but yet have to reach the level of arousal so do not worry about him trying to insert himself inside of you.

…why would he put anything inside me? What is arousal?

No – Vic muttered, no stop. Nurse Ratched I command you to…

It is how humans show further appreciation and deeper connection. The males of the species often will insert their penises into the female’s vaginas, though not always for procreation but it does not just have to have to be a male and a female. It can be two females it can be two males it can be six females four males and three nonbinary people all of whom are consenting to… “

This is the kind of dialogue and agenda we are dealing with and it is shoved down our throats, throughout the whole book, and I am baffled really.

The plot, the dialogue and the whole book really could have been executed much better, given the fact that the author used Pinocchio and the Wizard of Oz as inspiration for the story.

Is it just me or nowadays authors, songwriters, celebrities and public figures feel the pressure to show in some way that they are in support of LGBTQ+ people that they end up making content that is utter garbage instead of actually creating something of essence and substance? I am as confused, as are many other people about this phenomenon… but when we mention it we are being ostracised about our views on these topics and being called homophobes, transphobes and so on and so forth. Never have I ever in a million years would have guessed that instead of progressing in the 21st century, our human race would actually regress to this point. Do with that information what you will, at least for now we still have the freedom of speech, but something is telling me that soon might change as well and we will turn our society into “1984” and “Farenheit 451″…