{Cover Wars}The Affinity Bridge by George Mann

So as you may have heard Cover Wars this month is being painted with the colors of Steampunctober! And by doing so all the covers participating will be of this sub-genre, last week we had God Save the Queen a look at what if the royal family started to take lycanthropic and vampiric traits and sends the world as we know it into a modernish steampunk society.

The cover with more loving for God Save the Queen by Kate Locke is….

The American cover!!!

So none of us like a bad winner, so let’s leave the American cover to rest and let’s focus on this week’s contestants, the book in question is The Affinity Bridge by George Mann, let’s get started by taking a look at the book blurb.

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 ghostly policemen haunt the fog-laden alleyways of Whitechapel, where cadavers can rise from the dead and where Sir Maurice Newbury, Gentleman Investigator for the Crown, works tirelessly to protect the Empire from her foes.

When an airship crashes in mysterious circumstances, Sir Maurice and his recently appointed assistant Miss Veronica Hobbes are called in to investigate. Meanwhile, Scotland Yard is baffled by a spate of grisly murders and a terrifying plague is ravaging the slums of the city.

So begins an adventure quite unlike any other, a thrilling steampunk mystery and the first in the series of "Newbury & Hobbes" investigations.

Now that we are kind of acquainted with The Affinity Bridge let’s get the contestants ready and prepare your eyes for some gorgeous zeppelin covers.

First up we have a cover that reminds me of old magazines covers for some reason, one that comes right at you saying I am here, I’m colorful and you want to read me. Here we have the Old school Affinity Bridge cover.

Next up is a cover of sunrises and promises, the one where the framework is almost as catchy as the center of the cover; we have here the golden Affinity Bridge cover.

Last but not least we have the cover with which I was first introduced to this book, the book of soft gray skies, a cover that gives the impression that you are looking at an old painting of a zeppelin flying above London. Here we have the relaxing ride by London cover.

Now that you’ve seen some of the faces this cover has had, feel free to share your favorite one, what made it more of your liking or more attractive than the others. Comment, vote on the poll or both! And hope to see you next Wednesday when we reveal the winner.

Until next time!