I wish I enjoyed this book more, I was extremely excited to read this after enjoying TJ’s other works. Perhaps it is unfair to compare different novels with different characters to one another, but truly I just couldn’t get into this one. 

This retelling of Pinocchio never pulled on my heartstrings the way others of Klune’s books did. And perhaps more sadly, it never really intrigued me either, I kept thinking there would maybe be a moment I got into the story, that perhaps there was going to be a twist or turn that really pulled me in, but there never was. The few moments of joy I felt reading this had little to do with the humanity of the book and the love story embedded in it, but rather in the little quips between Rambo and Ratchet, otherwise I found things pretty flat. 

I won’t be counting Klune out on stories based off of this one though, while it wasn’t for me, I can see how others would enjoy it!