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Original Title:	The Affinity Bridge
ISBN:	190500589X (ISBN13: 9781905005895)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Newbury and Hobbes #1
Characters:	Veronica Hobbes, Sir Maurice Newbury, Sir Charles Bainbridge
Setting:	London, England,1901(United Kingdom)
Literary Awards:	Sidewise Award Nominee for Alternate History (2008)

The Affinity Bridge (Newbury and Hobbes #1)

George Mann

Hardcover | Pages: 350 pages

Rating: 3.56 | 5765 Users | 756 Reviews

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Title	:	The Affinity Bridge (Newbury and Hobbes #1)
Author	:	George Mann
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 350 pages
Published	:	2008 by Snowbooks
Categories	:	Mystery. Fiction. Science Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Steampunk. Alternate History

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Welcome to the bizarre and dangerous world of Victorian London, a city teetering on the edge of revolution. Its people are ushering in a new era of technology, dazzled each day by new inventions. Airships soar in the skies over the city, whilst ground trains rumble through the streets and clockwork automatons are programmed to carry out menial tasks in the offices of lawyers, policemen and journalists.

But beneath this shiny veneer of progress lurks a sinister side. For this is also a world where ghostly policemen haunt the fog-laden alleyways of Whitechapel, where cadavers can rise from the dead and where Sir Maurice Newbury, Gentleman Investigator for the Crown, works tirelessly to protect the Empire from her foes.

When an airship crashes in mysterious circumstances, Sir Maurice and his recently appointed assistant Miss Veronica Hobbes are called in to investigate. Meanwhile, Scotland Yard is baffled by a spate of grisly murders and a terrifying plague is ravaging the slums of the city.

So begins an adventure quite unlike any other, a thrilling steampunk mystery and the first in the series of "Newbury & Hobbes" investigations.

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Ratings: 3.56 From 5765 Users | 756 Reviews

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3 starsIt was ok but left me a little disappointed as it could have been so much more. I picked it up thinking it was an interesting technological take on Sherlock Holmes which was there but for me it was much more akin to James Bond. I loved the idea but it just didn't quite reach those lofty heights.The world building was ok but could have been a but more expressive. It's a short book I know but still could have drawn the reader in more. I did enjoy the steampunk tech elements even if some

The epilogue to this book almost caused me to bump this up to a four-star review. Almost. But given that the vast majority of it had me quite comfortably rating it as a 3, I'm going to stay with that. But the ending is just interesting enough to convince to to pick up another.Note: The rest of this review has been withdrawn due to the changes in Goodreads policy and enforcement. You can read why I came to this decision here.In the meantime, you can read the entire review at Smorgasbook

If this book is Steampunk, then I want to read more of them. Maurice Newbury is a Crown Agent, an investigator of both crimes and the occult for the crown in this delightfully vigorous mystery set in a reworked victorian England full of both elements of science fiction and horror.Revenants (zombie like human creatures, who are victims of a plague from India) are roaming London killing people, but other people are dying by some mysterious means, found strangled. There are odd sightings of a

Good action packed mystery, reminiscent of Sherlock Holmes, but set in a steampunk version of the Victorian era. The story is not always very believable, but I had some fun with it. 3,5 stars.

This is the first book I have read by George Mann and I thoroughly enjoyed it. The story is set in Victorian London and has all the 'steam punk' elements of airships, land trains and clockwork automatons programmed by punch cards. Victoria is still Queen but is kept alive on a life support machine. Her Empire is looked after by secret agents like Sir Maurice Newbury - Gentleman investigator for the crown. He and his recently appointed assistant Miss Veronica Hobbes are called to investigate the

This is another book in a line of steampunk reads lately that was somewhat disappointing to me. This was an okay read and technically steampunk; although mainly this is a pretty standard mystery type of story. The characters were fairly bland and I felt the writing style itself was a bit devoid of personality. Nothing about this book really grabbed me and sucked me in.At times I felt like the author had a checklist of steampunk elements he had to include to make this more steampunky:

Apologies to my dear friend (http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/39...), but I could not manage to finish this. It's not because it's a pastiche. Those are great. The writing itself bothered me. The author repeats passages of exposition almost word-for-word: p. 21 "After the last of the thieves turned up dead, the 'glowing bobby' was never seen again"; p. 39 "Once they were dead, the 'glowing bobby' disappeared, never to be seen again." The setting and dialogue are not very believable either, and