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Let's start the 2025 favourites recaps with my favourite genre: sci-fi.
Top row = best of the best,
Middle row = more robot-forward picks,
Bottom row= sci-fi horror and sci-fi mystery

Cute horror and snarky AI combine to create this weird, wild adventure. The book is funny and entertaining, and I can picture it as a movie. The spaceship itself is enlisted in the fight against evil monsters. Ya gotta love it!

Our favorite monsters on a spaceship in the future. The AI on the ship, Demeter saves the day. Weirdly good and I loved it. Not for everyone unless you love to read something new. Dracula, the Werewolf, Frankenstein, the mummy all make appearances. 🧛🧛🧛🧛

I had no idea what this book would be when I picked it up but it turned out to be everything I wanted.
When it comes to genre distribution I think it's an even split between sci-fi and horror with a sprinkle of fantasy. I adore the writing, how the multiple POVs and time jumps were expressed via the formatting, the sci fi twists on classic horror/adventure figures, the banter, the occasional dark humour, the emotional heart, 1/?

Merciless. 💅🏻😈😁

To be fair, I feel like that's Steward's default position. 🙄😏

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Oh my- We do NOT call people impaled by Vlad the Impaler KEBABS!! 🫣🫢😆

Argh. 😡

I had to take a picture of my notes that I took while reading at work, because if I couldn‘t do those, I would‘ve thrown it across the room.

Suffice to say…. No.

The equivalent of bad pacing. ⭐️

You take 1 ghost space ship, scrub it clean of Lovecraft fish people, add in a werewolf, a mummy, a Frankenstein, & an AI doctor, mix it like a margarita shaker, then send them off to kill Dracula. What could possibly go wrong?

Everything. Everything goes wrong. This pastiche of horror icons made me LOL several times. Not a lot of character depth, but I was honestly having too much fun to care. I want more of this group‘s adventures! 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑

The last two books of my Halloween TBR are happening this week. The aim was to finish by Nov 15th, at which point I‘ll start my Winter TBR.

Both are … weird. That‘s all I can really say for now.

Found family, artificial intelligence, wild space hijinks, and monsters, all wrapped up in a murder/massacre mystery: this is a book that fully embraces its own strangeness, and it will absolutely take you right along for the ride, if you let it!

⭐️⭐️⭐️it wasn‘t awful, but it wasn‘t great either. Enjoyed while I was reading, but once I put it down, never felt compelled to pick it back up. It‘s a charming mashup of Dracula, Frankenstein, the mummy and AI run spaceship. However I needed more character development and some questions answered. I felt unfulfilled. Overall it‘s cute.

Maybe if I had read the book instead of listening to it my feelings for this book would be different, but as it is, this is a NO for me.

3.5/5

Demeter is an economy passenger ship taking people on the multi-year journey between Earth and Alpha Centauri. Life is normal until a monster attacks the people on board, and Demeter is forced to fight back.

I really enjoyed the early part of the book where all the different monsters were introduce3, and I loved the ending, but I felt like there were parts in the middle that were a little slow. I really loved the characters.

#netgalley

I started listening to this today for a book club. I'm on the fence right about how I feel about it. 🤔😬🤔

My favorites of the year, so far 🤩

How beautiful is this cover?! 😍😍😍

Do You Like Space?! Do you like AI controlled Spaceships?! Do You Like werewolves?! then this is the book for you! we got all the classic monsters, Vampires, werewolves, Frankenstein, all aboard the grand Demeter! a AI Spaceship who just wants to go on a run were all her passengers stay alive. kind of hard to do when monsters keep showing up to ruin everything! a fantastic, brilliant, original, unique must read!