City of Dark Magic by Magnus Flyte is a mishmash of time-traveling, spies, and quests set in the modern day city of Prague. Sarah Weston receives an invitation to spend the summer in a castle in Prague cataloging and setting up a display of the music and other Beethoven related items in the collection. Sarah is immediately immersed in several seemingly unrelated strange occurrences: the prince acting strangely like he is on some type of drug, cryptic notes from the previous professor working on the Beethoven collection, and repeated references to Prague being a threshold. Flyte slowly weaves the threads together and a more coherent story begins to form involving cold war spies and a search for missing items.
I have to say it took a long time for the book to get going, but eventually it did catch my attention. I enjoyed enough that I will give the sequel a try at some point, but it is not a book I will be reading again.
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