Bathtime Books

 ⭐⭐⭐⭐☆ Another solid romance-thriller by Rebecca Zanetti. This novel follows Angus, the leader of the Deep Ops team in his quest to discover if the serial killer who killed his sister really is dead or not. As usual, Zanetti interweaves the romance between the two leads of this novel, Angus Force and Nari Zhang, with the fast action of the secondary plot-line (in this case the hunt for a serial killer). The romance between Angus and Nari had been building in the previous novels, and in this novel, it finally ignited. The chemistry between the two was really nice and they seemed like a solid pairing. I also appreciated the solid character building that happened in this novel. Although these characters were present in the previous series, we didn't really get to know them at all. So learning about their backgrounds and motivations made the cast of characters make more sense. I felt a little less clear about the serial killer hunt storyline. By the resolution of the novel, I was still...

 ⭐⭐⭐☆☆ Prof. Noble wrote a book that focused largely on how search algorithms are designed to continue the hegemony of the white, male, heterosexual due in large part to the creators of the algorithms falling within this group. She further contends that search engine companies, have misrepresented their product by insinuating that the results represent the 'most correct' or 'most useful' information on the web, but they do not. The arguments are legitimate but I feel that the book repeated its arguments without much evidence and attempted to take a moralistic stance at times that felt oppressive. I would say that the final part of the book, truly the last two chapters, is what makes the book worth reading. The first two chapters are repetitious and could benefit from a lot of shortening. In these chapters, Nobel elucidates that algorithms aren't neutral and have implicit biases due to the nature of development, she takes about 100 pages to explain this and give a fe...