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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Veronica and Newbury find themselves on a case of "cloning" that could destroy the queen. However, personal matters including the safety of Veronica's sister, Amelia, and Maurice's opium use often create additional complications. ( ) I am late to the party on George Mann (this being book 3 & me having not yet read books 1 or 2), but I intend to make up for lost time. DAMN but that was fun (with steampunk, even!)! Check out these elements: Victorian England with steam-driven carriages & airships, seedy opium dens, secret agents, secret societies, reckless thieves, duplicate people, steam-driven shoulder cannons, clairvoyance, the occult, and, at the center of the web, Queen Victoria herself, literally heartless, with only clever machinary and a mysterious fluid keeping her alive. I will acquaint myself with the other books with all speed. I have not yet read book #2 in this series, so I don't know how much better I might have liked #3 if I had. It's a ripping yarn, to be sure, and I was very happy that Veronica displayed her courage, prowess, determination, and loyalty. However... what I want from Sir Maurice is intelligence, and he seemed a bit slow on the uptake in this one. As I said, I'm a sucker for pretty cover art, and the book before this in the series (The Osiris Ritual) finished on such a cliff-hanger that I had to have this next one. The problem is, the cliff-hanger is only resolved about 3/4 of the way through the book and given how big of a problem the thing was (sorry for lack of clarity, I'm trying not to spoil), it was very emotionally unsatisfying. The other problem is that the time-line of Newbury & Hobbes mysteries now seems very squashed, because I'd assumed that, by the start of the third book, they'd been a team for ~18 months, but apparently it's not quite a year and that seems to be a lot to pack in. What happens in this book explains why book 2's main villain was such a let down after a book and a half of build up, because the author appears to have decided to turn spoiler into the main villain of the series. I will read the rest of the books, but not with the same sense of "must read, must read".
Fans of the first two books will welcome this darkly suspenseful addition, but this particular title might appeal more to horror readers than those seeking steampunk-focused fiction. The book's epilog hints of tales to come. Belongs to Series
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. The Immorality Engine is the third in the Newbury and Hobbes series. No library descriptions found. |
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