So the good:
Space Urban Fantasy, of the ‘monsters are barely known about’ style of urban fantasy. I am a massive urban fantasy fan, and love a good scifi.
Love the direction of the two AIs, the perspective of beings outside the usual human or human-like. Conversations are ‘feeds’ that last fractions of a second, one being ‘camera blind’ and doesn’t know how to ‘see’ without the aid of data-matching visuals to a database, and being bad at communicating with humans.
I had a fairly easy time keeping up with the perspective shifts, especially helped by the multiple voice actors. Not something I’m usually good with.
I like this version of Frankenstein. Biased though, I’m playing a somewhat similar character in a TTRPG campaign.
The bad (mostly personal gripes)
The voice acting kinda goes too far? I guess? Maybe I’m just sensitive to kids crying out, and some of the werewolf stuff is a bit ‘much’. There is one point that a line is just read twice which isn’t a great look. That said I think I’d prefer this over anything too dull.
This book is more sci-fi with some fantasy sorta shoved in. When its urban fantasy with most people not knowing of the fantasy aspect, there needs to be some reason, some veil held up. Nothing of the sort is in here. Dracula, werewolves, vampires, that one chapter with the fish people, they all just sorta… exist but aren’t known about.
Overall enjoyable, but with some aspects I needed to intentionally ignore.