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A review by ericbuscemi
The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack by Mark Hodder
4.0
I'm so glad I stumbled onto this imaginative steam-punk series. I loved the protagonist, a fictionalized Sir Richard Francis Burton, his side-kick, an equally fictionalized Algernon Charles Swinburne, and their adventures in this alternate Victorian England, complete with genetically modified animals, steam engine-propelled penny farthings and flying rotochairs .
I loved the inclusion of so many personalities of the time, such as Charles Darwin, Florence Nightingale and Oscar Wilde, and the allusions to others like Edgar Allen Poe's C. Auguste Dupin and Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes.
Though a few points of the novel bogged down with speeches on the nature of man in relation to the ethics of the technological advances occurring, the pacing builds nicely throughout the book and climaxes in a rip-roaring crescendo. I am very much looking forward to reading the sequel, [b:The Curious Case of the Clockwork Man|9740847|The Curious Case of the Clockwork Man (Burton & Swinburne, #2)|Mark Hodder|http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1327938936s/9740847.jpg|14629956].
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and, of course, time-travelI loved the inclusion of so many personalities of the time, such as Charles Darwin, Florence Nightingale and Oscar Wilde, and the allusions to others like Edgar Allen Poe's C. Auguste Dupin and Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes.
Though a few points of the novel bogged down with speeches on the nature of man in relation to the ethics of the technological advances occurring, the pacing builds nicely throughout the book and climaxes in a rip-roaring crescendo. I am very much looking forward to reading the sequel, [b:The Curious Case of the Clockwork Man|9740847|The Curious Case of the Clockwork Man (Burton & Swinburne, #2)|Mark Hodder|http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1327938936s/9740847.jpg|14629956].