lured by books

I'm done reading the issues of Locus that had been piling up this year. Alas, I have found too many reviews of books that left me writing the titles down because now I want to read them. Like I haven't already been lured into acquiring too many books.. The latest issue had this review.

George Mann's The Affinity Bridge is a perfectly adequate steampunk rehash. There are dirigibles, clockwork men, opium, and fog. Queen Victoria is still around, kept alive by machines. There is a mysterious plague that turns its victims into zombies. There is an investigator/academic, Sir Maurice Newbury, and his beautiful assistant, Miss Veronica Hobbes...

They then go on to compare the plot to a competent Doctor Who episode written by Russell T Davies instead of one by Blink's Steven Moffat. Also, they feel that the attitudes of the main characters are too modern for 1901. Oh, and the prose is described as workmanlike.

I'll probably buy it.