Imagine your most comfortable and cozy space, the one that makes you feel completely at peace and happy. That space is what "cozy fantasy" offers, a fantasy subgenre that allows you to enjoy comfort and familiarity without losing sight of a great novel.
This Saturday, book reviewer Camilasbooks recommends a book by writer TJ Klune, an American author of fiction, romance, and fantasy with LGBTQ characters, "The Life of Puppets," which was published in 2023.
This novel, according to Camilasbooks, "is about a human who lives with three robots and they all live very happily together until another robot arrives, they begin to discover things about the past of one of them and the new one, a situation that is going to turn the world "upside down."
And in a strange little house built among the branches of a grove of trees, live three robots: the android inventor Giovanni Lawson, a pleasantly sadistic nursing machine and a tiny vacuum cleaner desperate for love and attention. Victor Lawson, a human, also lives there. They are a family, hidden and safe.
Klun, Camilasbooks said, has great skill in writing characters that are and behave like robots, with dialogues that are very much in line with what an automated machine would be like and that are configured to have a response of a certain type.
"I found it incredible because I thought the characters were wonderful, between Rambo, who is a vacuum cleaner, and Dr. Ratched, who is a medical assistance robot. The truth is that I had an incredible time, because they were characters who had their characteristics as biomarked as a machine and that made me so happy while reading; and accompanying Victor, who is our human protagonist on this whole journey, was incredible."
The author, the reviewer stressed, always touches on, in a sensitive and kind way, issues that have to do with identity and sexuality, especially with the LGBTQ+ community.
??This is also evident in this book, there are several things that have to do, I think, above all with people's identity, how one identifies, the possibilities and the wide range that exists within the world; for the author it is super important that this is not a taboo at all," he said.
Cozy fantasy has become one of Camilasbooks' favorite subgenres, because it allows you to read in a warm, comfortable, and stress-free world.
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