George Manns The Affinity Bridge

I cannot wait to get my hands on a copy of The Affinity Bridge.
I have read reviews of it all over and it is nothing but rave, rave, rave.
I know that it is often said not to judge a book by its cover, and that Sci Fi and Fantasy books have a really bad reputation as far as cover art goes…But I always judge a book by its cover and I am usually dead right each time.
That is the way I bought and loved the Dark Materials, without hearing a single word about the books before I bought them.
I was reading Fantasy Book Critic, Well , I wasn’t really reading yet, since I had just clicked and opened it. I landed on a post about Affinity Bridge, By George Mann, and at the top of the post there was this picture.

Without reading one more word I was quite sure this would be the next book that I read and love, and, by what I have read on Fantasy Book Critic and various other places on the Internet, I am probably spot on again.

this is what the publisher, Snow books, says:

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 lycanthropy is a rampant disease that plagues the dirty whorehouses of Whitechapel, where poltergeist infestations create havoc in old country seats, where cadavers can rise from the dead and where nobody ever goes near the Natural History Museum.

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 lycanthropy is a rampant disease that plagues the dirty whorehouses of Whitechapel, where poltergeist infestations create havoc in old country seats, where cadavers can rise from the dead and where nobody ever goes near the Natural History Museum.

Set in the very beginning of the 20th century The Plot follows Maurice Newbury, a museum researcher and and agent to Queen Victoria tasked to investigating the super natural.
He is assigned to investigate a disaster on the airship The Lady Armitage, during which he breaks in his new assistant, the true star of the book, Victoria Hobbes. The disaster may or may not be connected to the plague, and infectious condition that basically eats the victims brains causing them Zombie like symptoms…

The author does a great job of recreating 19th century London, along with the amazing technical advances that were prominent in that world, parallel to the patriarchal Victorianism, that was still the excepted way of life, especially in regard to women.

As I said before - can’t wait to get my hands on it.
Robert from Fantasy Book Critic finishes his review of the book by saying

In closing, as long as you do not expect an involved, complicated plot, then “The Affinity Bridge” will charm and entertain you. And like “The Minutes of the Lazarus Club”, George Mann’s “The Affinity Bridge” is one of the biggest surprises of the year and I can’t recommend the book enough…

You can purchase the book on-line here.