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I did get swept up in events and was suitably tense as we raced towards the denouement, but there were a few too many places where I stopped and groaned because of some bit of magic intervention – luckily this had just happened, or coincidentally there was this kind of weapon nicely to hand. If it had been a more unashamedly tongue in cheek romp I would have accepted them and laughed, but as it is they seemed too convenient. There were also a few events that seemed to have had no purpose by the time I reached the end, or were over-egged initially and then resulted in an anticlimax. This is a new edition of The Affinity Bridge, which was first published in 2008 and there are a number of other books in the series. It does set some things up for a continuation so it's possible some of the unresolved events get picked up in later volumes.
Sadly I was left with a vague feeling of dissatisfaction, but I know I can be hypercritical once something about a book has annoyed me, so I'm quite sure other readers of steampunk and historical mysteries will enjoy this. I'm also sure they would enjoy [[Grandville by Bryan Talbot]] the first in a series of detective graphic novels set in an alternative steampunk England featuring anthropomorphic animals. We've also enjoyed [[Wychwood by George Mann]].
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