Adrienne

I'm aware of Dracula and the other monsters referred here by pop culture osmosis, but I haven't read the Stoker or Lovecraft books.

I was still able to enjoy this book as a series of largely disastrous space adventures, told mostly from the point of view of the ship's AI.

Demeter is a fun character, as a ship dropped into multiple impossible situations which, according to her databases, should be fictional. Her vacillation as to whether any of this death is her problem and how can she get the corporation to take her seriously feels very relatable.

Steward, the medical AI, is on some ways even more relatable to me. They're cranky and self interested and convinced of their own cleverness. I really enjoyed the interaction between the two AIs.

The world building feels a little sketchy, in a good and bad way. In a good way, it feels like we barely scratch the service on the human culture of interstellar travel and Earth-colonial relationships. That all feels sufficient to me. How and why the monsters exist and why the limits on their powers feels a bit under explained. What did Dracula want to do with a tame werewolf and why was he traveling to alpha centauri?

Overall, I had a good time reading the book.

The start is slow anda little abstract, but it ends in a very satisfying tale, reminiscent of the fairytale retellings of Robin McKinley in the 90s.

Why did I read a story about any of this? "Queer poly rule unhealthily self-obsessed and destroys everything in its wake" is not that interesting to me.

A fun gay hockey romance. If was weird to be that Kip seemed to have no real conception of the closet, but I'm also ~15 years older than him. (Although you'd think a wannabe historian with an interest in marginalized identities would have some idea.)

In any case because the show follows the book Heated Rivalry so closely, I was surprised by how it differed here. The changes seem largely reasonable for an adaption of a book to a TV episode and a couple of scenes in a later episode.

I liked Scott and Kip as characters, although I'm not clear that Scott likes Kip as much as he likes having an actual human relationship, but sometimes that's enough.

Most of the sex scenes felt like they were doing story work, although a couple of the playoffs ones felt like over egging the pudding.

This is a nice enough story, but it's really memorable because of its connection to the show.

Omegaverse why choose. Motorcycle club.

Decent story but there were too many alphas, it didn't feel like it allowed down enough to revel in any one alpha omega relationship and the intra pack relationships were unclear. An effort was definitely made to make the relationships clear, it just wasn't successful. Either the book should have been longer or the conflict with the rival MC Club should have been cut.