Cosmically fast-paced, wildly imaginative, and with City of Lost Dreams—thebewitching sequel—on shelves now, City of Dark Magic is the perfect potion of magic and suspense
Once a city of enormous wealth and culture, Prague was home to emperors, alchemists, astronomers, and, as it’s whispered, hell portals. When music student Sarah Weston lands 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.
Soon after Sarah arrives, strange things begin to happen. She learns that her mentor, who was working at the castle, may not have committed suicide after all. Could his cryptic notes be warnings? As Sarah parses his clues about Beethoven’s “Immortal Beloved,” she manages to get arrested, to have tantric sex in a public fountain, and to discover a time-warping drug. She also 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.
And the story continues in City of Lost Dreams, the mesmerizing sequel, which finds Sarah in the heart of Vienna, embroiled in a new web of mystical secrets and treacherous lies.
The premise of City Of Dark Magic sounded incredible, an intellectual suspense verging on a modern day steam punk novel, and in parts, it certainly delivered. Even though it's clearly intended for the wider adult audience, due to the few brief sexual situations, the scenario felt far more young adult. Sarah was a sexually confident girl, sassy, intelligent but refuses to take a back seat through life. She's promiscuous and knows what she wants. But sadly, Sarah fell flat. The reader will see glimpses of Sarah, but the hectic storyline didn't allow for any in depth character development. Nico, the midget was a breath of fresh air, cheeky, naughty and his flirtations were not only creepy, but highly entertaining. He was a strange, little free spirit and I wanted to see him more involved in the storyline, he was somewhat charming... Read more at http://www.divabooknerd.com/2013/10/city-of-dark-magic-by-magnus-flyte.html Fans of the Magnus Bane series by Cassandra Claire will enjoy the almost medieval modern day surroundings. I would class City Of Dark Magic as more of a fantasy new adult novel.
