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REVIEW: THE DANGERS OF AUTOMATION IN AIRLINERS: Accidents Waiting to Happen by Jack J. Hersch

You may want to strap in for this. Pilot and aviation enthusiast Jack Hersch brings you aboard the cockpits of doomed jumbo jets, including the Boeing 737 MAX, the Airbus A330 lost over the South Atlantic, and the Bombardier Q400 that stalled over Buffalo, in his expert analysis, THE DANGERS OF AUTOMATION IN AIRLINERS: Accidents Waiting to Happen (Air World: October 30, 2020).

Hersch examines how automation in aviation can be a lifesaver, expertly guiding a plane and its passengers through st...

REVIEW: The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle Book 1) by Nghi Vo

With the heart of an Atwood tale and the visuals of a classic Asian period drama, Nghi Vo’s The Empress of Salt and Fortune is a tightly and lushly written narrative about empire, storytelling, and the anger of women.

A young royal from the far north, is sent south for a political marriage in an empire reminiscent of imperial China. Her brothers are dead, her armies and their war mammoths long defeated and caged behind their borders. Alone and sometimes reviled, she must choose her allies care...

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REVIEW: The Voting Booth by Brandy Colbert

Dear Brandy Colbert,

I’ve been meaning to read one of your books for a long time and when The Voting Booth was published I was struck by the cleverness of the concept. This romantic YA novel takes place over the course of one day—Election Day—with Marva Sheridan, an activist eighteen-year-old Black girl, helping Duke Crenshaw, a biracial boy the same age, vote after he discovers that his name isn’t on the voter rolls at their local polling station.

It’s the first chance to vote in an election f...

Review: Andre (High Rise #2) by Jayce Ellis

After a week filled with nonstop work, André Ellison heads to the club to blow off some steam. One night off is the perfect distraction from the project that’s about to make his career—or tank it completely. A few drinks in and he leaves with a smoking-hot stranger for some scorching, burn-the-sheets-up sex.

Marcus Thompson is going places, so he can’t think of a bigger waste of time than being put on loan to a two-bit firm to prepare some small-time report. The last thing he wants—or needs—is ...

REVIEW: The Trouble with Trolls: An Enchanted Fairy Tale (The Chronicles of Forget-Me-Not Forest) by Sarina Dorie

Magic. Mystery. Twisted Fairy Tales to Delight!

Move over Beauty and the Beast—Make room for Beauty and the Troll.

In this fractured fairy tale, a wicked and selfish king accidentally marries a big beautiful troll. Their child is a troll changeling who becomes the king’s pet warrior, filling the role of monster the king needs to destroy his enemies.

Unfortunately for King Hathgar, his troll son escapes. Worse yet, upon his return, Harry the Troll, experiences a sudden malfunction in his abilit...

REVIEW: Seven of Infinities by Aliette de Bodard

Vân is a scholar from a poor background, eking out a living in the orbitals of the Scattered Pearls Belt as a tutor to a rich family, while hiding the illegal artificial mem-implant she manufactured as a student.

Sunless Woods is a mindship and not just any mindship, but a notorious thief and a master of disguise. She’s come to the Belt to retire, but is drawn to Vân’s resolute integrity.

When a mysterious corpse is found in the quarters of Vân’s student, Vân and Sunless Woods find themselve...

REVIEW: Guilt by Association by Gregory Ashe

Please note: If you think this series might be of interest to you may wish to avoid this review—it’s full of spoilers for books one through three. Start with my review of Pretty Pretty Boys, book one in the series, instead.

Trigger warnings:

Spoiler: Show

homophobia and homophobic slurs—although this is an #ownvoices book, homophobic slurs are used to portray homophobic characters as well as sarcastically by the main characters.

Dear Gregory Ashe,

I got hooked on your Hazard and Somerset seri...

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REVIEW: Kindred – Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art by Rebecca Wragg Sykes

In Kindred, Neanderthal expert Rebecca Wragg Sykes shoves aside the cliché of the shivering ragged figure in an icy wasteland, and reveals the Neanderthal you don’t know, our ancestor who lived across vast and diverse tracts of Eurasia and survived through hundreds of thousands of years of massive climate change. This book sheds new light on where they lived, what they ate, and the increasingly complex Neanderthal culture that researchers have discovered.

Since their discovery 150 years ago, N...