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City of Dark Magic

City of Dark Magic 1

by Magnus Flyte
Paperback
Publication Date: 23/10/2013
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Once a city of enormous wealth and culture, in its day Prague was home to emperors, alchemists, astronomers. When music student Sarah Weston finds herself with a summer job at Prague Castle cataloging Beethoven's manuscripts, she has no idea how dangerous her life is about to become. Prague is a threshold, Sarah is warned, and it is steeped in blood. It's not long after Sarah arrives that things start to go wrong. Her mentor, who was working at the castle, is thought to have committed suicide. Then Sarah begins to discover cryptic notes from him; could they be warnings? Following the clues about Beethoven's 'Immortal Beloved', Sarah gets into more trouble than she could have reasonably expected. Arrests, sex and a touch of alchemy take Sarah on an exciting and occasionally dangerous trip. Along the way she catches the attention of a four-hundred-year-old dwarf, the handsome Prince Max, and a powerful U.S. senator with secrets she will do anything to hide. City of Dark Magic could be called a rom-com paranormal suspense novel - or it could simply be called one of the most entertaining novels of the year.
ISBN:
9781922147615
9781922147615
Category:
Fantasy
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
23-10-2013
Language:
English
Publisher:
Text Publishing
Country of origin:
Australia
Pages:
464
Dimensions (mm):
198x128x29mm
Weight:
0.34kg

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First off, the characters were not the greatest. I really wanted to like the main character Sarah, but by golly, for a supposedly smart person she was pretty damn stupid. Max felt kind of one dimensional to me and their romance fell flat. Nico was meh, made worse as he is supposedly hella old? Also, I want to mention how utterly stupid it is that the four hundred year old dwarf thing is right there in the synopsis. In the book it feels like it shouldve been a cool little plot twist/reveal, but we know all along so its like ??.? Charlotte Yates keeps getting called the most powerful US senator but why? What makes her so powerful? Shes not exactly a particularly good antagonist either

For the first 3/4 of the book, I was in a state of either confusion or boredom. It wasnt until the last quarter of the book that the plot really picked up and I was finally getting sucked in to the story. Things were happening and I got all excited. The adrenaline got pumping and things were awesome. I was quite prepared to give this book four stars, but then the ending happened The end was less climatic and more confusing as hell. Im still not 100% on what went down.

But I DONT WANT YOU TO THINK THIS ENTIRE BOOK WAS TERRIBLE, because it wasnt. I mean, MAGIC! And secret passageways, and a prince, and history, and music, and Prague, and alchemy. I wish I knew more about music and Beethoven because I feel like I wouldve enjoyed this book so much more.

There are a lot of cool and interesting things happening in this book, but then again there is also a fair bit of ehh and huh?. Kinda average.

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