Never read anyone love bacon as artimus darth Vader.

Nate has lost everything and now he has returned back to his family cabin where me meets Alex and artimus.

I loved this book it was great to seen Nate become to what he is and the relationships between them all grow.

Embrace the weird.

I love the diversity of TJ’s stories. One day you are reading about Werewolves, the next it’s angels, then you get a bit of alien body invaders with a side of bacon thrown in for good measure.

Artemis Darth Vader might be the rootingist tootingist book character to mosey on into my reading list this year. She’s wise beyond her years and takes joy in the simplest of things. Like waitresses. And cowboy books.

Nate Cartwright goes to spend time at his parents’ cabin to lick his wounds, after losing his job following a scandal involving a senator and a BJ. He calls in to see Big Eddie on his way (I awwwwwwed at that). He doesn’t expect to find a strange little girl and her protector, Alex, in his cabin.

Nate gets sucked into a wild adventure that sees him starting to love a strange little girl and fall in love with Alex. Things get blown up. People die - I was going to say, unlike any other TJ Klune book, and then I thought about Green Creek, where lots of things get blown up and lots of people die, so not that different really.

Art, stole the show. TJ’s writing and creativity is perfection. If an alien wants to come and see our world, I say let them. We are fucked up and too many people in this world don’t appreciate that we are the same. We are all made of dust and stars.

My favourite words of wisdom:

“Just take it for what it is. Kindness. Sometimes people need it, even if they don’t know how to ask for it.”

“He had Pulitzer dreams on a lower-middle-class salary that barely kept him afloat in a city that bled red, white, and blue, oozing in time with the beat of a diseased heart. It had been killing him.”

“I wondered what you would be like. Humans. What you would be capable of. How your minds would work. How your hearts would beat. You are animals. Fierce and wild. You are harsh and brutal and beautiful. There is no one like you in all the universe. You have the power for such destruction within you. And such joy. It’s a dichotomy that shouldn’t exist, and yet here it is. Within you. Within all of you.”

We are all made of dust and stars, and we shouldn’t ever forget it.

I wish I had read TJ Klunes books earlier, I was late coming to that party but glad that I am catching up. Nobody else writes with such warmth and this book is just the same, different slant to this story but the same fuzzy warm feeling. I find these books very comforting and renew my faith in humanity.

Nate is leaving his life behind after a few misteps and makes his way to the cabin left to him after the tragic death of his parents

He expects to relax away from the world, what he doesn't expect is to find an ex Marine and a young girl who may be more than meets the eye.

Nate is torn on what to do, but something makes him stay in that cabin with Alex and Art and he couldn't have possibly imagined how much two people could change his whole life

Nate, Alex and Art have a journey to make and need to stay safe whilst doing it, but can they get Art back to where she came from, without losing themselves along the way...

Definitely a different premise for Klune leaning more scifi, but still hold the same found family vibes we have came to know and love from him

I loved spending time with these three and hope you all do too

Released February so lots of time to get those preorders in. Thank you to NetGalley and Tor for the early review copy, all opinions my own

The Bones Beneath My Skin once again reminded me why I love Klunes books. No one writes found family like him. I did not expect to love a book about Aliens as much as his others but I did. Loved Artemis Darth Vader to pieces, as well as Alex and Nate. The story was action filled but also had these beautifully written slow moments.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publishers for this ARC.

T.J Klune does not fail in this wonderfully intense novel. The addictive readability is a real thing through out this book.

The world/character building as always is phenomenal. Although there is a spattering of humour it is a fairly intense and serious story. This is definitely a sci-fi with a side of romance as opposed to romance in a sci-fi setting (not saying this is a bad thing).

Although this is not one of my favourite T.J Klune books I was not disappointed.