The Affinity Bridge
A Newbury & Hobbes Investigation

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......more

Meh. This reads as if it was written to fulfill a contract obligation, or because "we need a steampunk novel". Too many formulaic components - and this may be a problem with the genre rather than this particular author - and too many chunks of boilerplate text. Every time characters of the opposite......more

I wanted, badly, to enjoy this book so much more than I did. The idea is delicious -- a Steampunk London, Victoria kept alive by Mad Science!, a zombie plague sweeping through the underbelly of the city. An agent of the crown with a dark side and a patriotic heart. His dauntless and beautiful assista......more

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 l......more

3 stars It 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 heigh......more