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Following on from his first two hugely enjoyable Newbury & Hobbes Investigations (The Affinity Bridge and The Osiris Ritual), George Mann brings us the latest offering in his steampunk-flavoured series; The Immorality Engine. Once again focusing on the exploits of occult expert, and agent to the crown, Maurice Newbury alongside his assistant, Miss Veronica Hobbes, we find Sir Maurice at a new low. He is despondent and introverted, hiding away in a seedy opium den, slave to his desire for the dru...
I think this series is growing on me. The first book I was solidly meh about, although the ending made me more intrigued and willing to go into the second book. The second book I still didn't love, but was more to my taste. Now, by the third book, I think Mann is getting better as he goes. This is now a solid series that I am more than willing to go further in. (Presuming there are more, I guess.)Note: The rest of this review has been withdrawn due to the changes in Goodreads policy and enforcem...
A whole 'nother levelThe best of the series so far. Either I am more invested now or the plot has thickened enough. Still a few hasty resolutions here and there, but overall much better.
Newbury and Hobbes return for a third outing in their steampunk Victorian London. This time their investigation begins when a dead criminal seems to still be undertaking robberies in their own unique style. This leads them to the mysterious Bastion Society and it's head Enoch Graves. How are duplicate bodies being made? And who is trying to attack the Queen?Although there's plenty of weird and wonderful steampunk elements to this story they are not really important to the plot. It's all about a
4.5 stars. Another rollicking steampunk romp in an alternative Victorian Britain. George Mann is truly the Steampunk Master. It’s been a long time since I read the first two in this series and in the interim have read many other steampunk stories, but Mann is still the best! I love his portrayal of Queen Victoria as a poisonous, almost undead scheming monstrosity, kept alive by machines.
Newbury & Hobbes are into another mystery in this popular Steampunk series from George Mann. This is the third book in the “A Newbury & Hobbes Investigation” series with the other two books being “The Affinity Bridge” and “The Osiris Ritual” BOTH RECOMMENDEDIn this book we run into Newbury & Hobbes’s favourite crook Edwin Sykes. Edwin is so smart that even though Newbury believes he is a master criminal he has never been able to prove it. Now Sykes has pulled off the impossible in that while his...
The first book in this series was good but seemed to be missing something...like it didn't quite all come together. The second was one step better and a fine read. Now, with this third novel, the series is firing on all cylinders. Bring on number four!
Having picked this up for 50p in a charity shop, together with the first in the series (see previous review), I thought I would read it to see if the author has improved. Oh dear me, no he hasn't. I am assuming that, apart from the steam punk element, the history of the UK is supposed to be as it was in reality. Set in 1902, the evil villain, Sir Enoch Grant, refers to making 'the Empire cover the world again'. Yet in 1902, the Empire was probably at its largest extent. Sir Charles Bainbridge sa...
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The satisfying end of the first Newbury and Hobbes trilogy. Beside all the action, twists and turns I have been impressed by the splendid character development. The end is superb because it delivers a formidable end of the series and offers more than promising hints what the reader can expect in future.
As usual, this book was well written and evenly paced. It kept me turning the virtual pages (kindle version) from the start.I really enjoyed each conflict the main characters had to face, and I was pleased with their resulting choices. I'm very glad Newbury and Hobbes finally got together, seeing as I was rooting for that to happen from the first book.Honestly, the only disappointment I have is that this was only a trilogy. This, the third and final book, wrapped up the story nicely, but it was
I have been waiting for this series to really hit it's stride and I think we just got there.The world building is very similar to the others but it had a few extra things that made it a bit more vivid this time.The characters are really developing well too. Newbury goes through a lot in this one but it makes his character so much better in the long run. Miss Hobbes though is really becoming who I had hoped she would. Not quite there yet but well on her way.The plot was brilliant and had a few th...
Book three of this Steampunk series that currently runs to 5 books. Newbury and Hobbes investigate an apparent plot to take down the queen, but there are several things amiss and all is not as it at first appears. When some identical bodies show up it's clear someone has been using advanced medical science or the supernatural means to duplicate human beings. Some clues point to the mysterious gentleman's club known as the Bastion Society. Even though I enjoyed this book I had a few issues with i...
A good third entry in the series. I am starting to really hate Queen Victoria, though. I feel like we are also finally starting to see whatever this series is leading up to and I'm glad that not all is as it initially seemed with Amelia. I'm not sure whether I'm a fan of a Veronica/Maurice romance, but I was definitely not a fan of Maurice being an opium addict so I guess we'll have to see how it plays out. Definitely looking forward to the next one!
The third Newbury and Hobbes adventure starts dramatically with a funeral of a favorite character and then goes back some time to its real start several months after the end of the Osiris Ritual to recount the events that led to said funeral. The Immorality Engine has the same structure as the first two books - seemingly unrelated mysteries, this time the murder of a high-class jewel thief and an assassination attempt on Queen Victoria - which bring Maurice Newbury out from his opium descent aft...
Fun and quick read, I love this alternate Victorian England Mann has created. It's the perfect blend of reality and steampunk. I think this one might be my favorite in the series so far!
I really enjoyed this third book in the "Newbury & Hobbes" investigations series by George Mann. This adventure reunites Agent to Queen Victoria, Sir Maurice Newbury and his very able assistant Veronica Hobbes. Set in a Victorian London which is very different to the traditional history. This is a world where Queen Victoria is kept alive by Dr Fabian using amazing medical know how, evil half dead "revenants" crawl through the streets preying on the unfortunate, clockwork and steam driven trains
All too often the Steampunk genre is judged by its bare basics. Add in an airship, monocle and some contemporary items with gears, and to some people you’re set to go. However, the charm of the genre comes from other aspects – Archaic societal norms given futuristic technology, the Empire at a height it never truly knew, and concepts from other genres put into a new light. This is what the Newbury and Hobbes series has always excelled at, and this new outing offers to show that much more of the
You know what's particularly annoying about most alternate Britains, especially steampunk ones? It's the fact that the author seems far too often to think that all that's required is to stick a Zeppelin or two in the sky and allude to brass instruments a lot and that means he's done his job. The flip-side of this overly lazy approach is no better either: the type of book which doesn't really have a story as such, just a series of carefully constructed non-electronic machines, described in loving...
Tbe third in George Mann's Newbury and Hobbes Investigations Steampunk series is great fun from beginning to end. Sir Maurice Newbury, Queen Victoria's agent, is continuing to sink into his opium addiction, much to the dismay of his great friend, Sir Charles Bainbridge of Scotland Yard. Still more distressed is Sir Maurice's assistant Miss Veronica Hobbes. When the body of a suspected jewel thief turns up murdered in one of the seedier sections of London, yet robberies identical to to the corpse...