City of Dark Magic

Loved this novel! It's sort of mystical realism, sort of romance/mystery, and very much an enjoyable and engaging read. Sort of like The Davinci Code, but with a sexy young female protagonist and fewer religious overtones.

Sarah Weston is a young Ph.D. candidate in music who is invited to Prague for the summer, where the manuscripts of Beethoven are being cataloged for a new museum. Just before she arrives, people start to die - including her mentor, who had been working on the collection she's been invited to catalog. When she gets there she meets the mysterious Prince Max, an ageless and intriguing dwarf named Nico, and all sorts of interesting characters. And the action just does not stop. I honestly had a hard time putting the book down, and finished it over the course of two days of travel.

I know I've been off the grid for a while. I took a writing class so I was reading mainly just short stories, and this is really the first book I've read in a while that made me want to blog about it. But hopefully I'll be back at it on a regular basis.

City of Dark Magic