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A review by arminam
Of Monsters and Mainframes by Barbara Truelove
4.0
Of Monsters and Mainframes offers a fantastic blend of sci-fi and fantasy, as the Demeter keeps encountering supernatural monsters. I've never seen a premise like this before, and it was so fun!
I have one main gripe though. I thought the stuff with Dracula would be more important throughout the book, but after the inciting incident, it falls off til like 60% of the book, where suddenly it's like "we have to kill Dracula". Like where did this go for like half the book? This could have used a main thread through the monster-of-the week (or monster-of-the-flight?) format it had for a while.
Also feel like the climax could have been for satisfying...
I loved being in Demeter's mind, and I grew attached to this poor AI that just seems to always attract trouble. Also great friendship that got developed between her and Steward, the medical AI, this was probably the relationship I liked the most.
As a Dracula Daily veteran, I was looking forward to (and maybe dreading a bit) the references to the book, and this delivered! I loved the little tidbits, like the spider drones from Renfield Enterprise. And most importantly MINA !!!!!!! I was so happy to see her, here you don't even know! Though I was sad to learn she never got to love this version's Jonathan, which is such a shame.
All in all this was a light, fun (kinda gruesome?) read, with lovable characters and a unique setting.
Thank you to NetGalley and Bindery Books for providing with an ARC in exchange for an honest review.
I have one main gripe though. I thought the stuff with Dracula would be more important throughout the book, but after the inciting incident, it falls off til like 60% of the book, where suddenly it's like "we have to kill Dracula". Like where did this go for like half the book? This could have used a main thread through the monster-of-the week (or monster-of-the-flight?) format it had for a while.
Also feel like the climax could have been for satisfying...
I loved being in Demeter's mind, and I grew attached to this poor AI that just seems to always attract trouble. Also great friendship that got developed between her and Steward, the medical AI, this was probably the relationship I liked the most.
As a Dracula Daily veteran, I was looking forward to (and maybe dreading a bit) the references to the book, and this delivered! I loved the little tidbits, like the spider drones from Renfield Enterprise. And most importantly
All in all this was a light, fun (kinda gruesome?) read, with lovable characters and a unique setting.
Thank you to NetGalley and Bindery Books for providing with an ARC in exchange for an honest review.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Murder
Moderate: Medical content