I was not expecting this book to be so thematically similar to Children of Memory, but here we are. 
I'm also mad that no one told me how much this book was riffing on Frankenstein. Well, by way of Rocky Horror. Yes, it's more obviously Pinocchio, but come on. VICTOR?
This is also very much a book for people who like to get references. It's me. I'm that person.
Anyway, it was Klune through and through--for all that it was also its own very weird thing--and I'm really loving this unofficial series he's doing on what it means to be human through the lens of monsters, death, and robots.