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I bought this to check out the book after seeing the movie. The book and movie have the same characters, but the structure and stories are a bit different.
All in all, I find the book to be fun, easy to read and enjoy. Also, the fact that it's translated from Russian, gives us some insight to modern Russian culture and use of language.


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Night Watch Sergei Lukyanenko Andrew Bromfield 9781401359799 Books Reviews

Anton is an Other who works for the Moscow Night Watch. Others are human-born supernatural beings. He happens to be an untested and ungraded magician, but there are also vampires and shape-shifters.

The Night Watch protects and encourages good in and amongst humans, and keeps an eye on the activities of the Day Watch, who spread and encourage darkness and evil.

Both sides have access to the Twilight, a magical space that humans cannot see.

Anton discovers a very strong sorceress, who literally has the power, and the special chalk, to rewrite destiny. How to handle this without a war starting? Anton has to figure it out.

While it does get wordy, and sometimes too philosophical for fantasy fiction, Night Watch is good. An inventive, dark take on urban fantasy. I plan to read more!
Melancholy. This is the first word that springs to mind. Maybe it’s because I’m not a part of that world anymore (I’m from Russia originally), maybe because the emotions were buried under logic. I liked the story, and yet I didn’t feel it. Only on occasion some passion would burst through, in the form of the grim sense of disillusionment, or of the yearning for love, or of something missing. A sense of not belonging, mostly. Maybe I got it wrong, but I felt doom throughout the story, doom that couldn’t be lifted, the way Twilight realm was described - muted, grey, dim, blurry - and when I stopped reading, when I had to break, it was difficult for me to pick up the book again. The nostalgia was there, Moscow of the 90’s. I was a teenager back then, and I didn’t really want to go back to that time. Maybe that was it. It’s written in a calm voice, perhaps too calm for me. It’s broken into several stories, and I kept losing the connection. I was astounded. I thought I’d be in love with this book, that it would be one of my favorites. Nonetheless. Regardless of what I feel, it’s a great read, so don’t be swayed by what I say and taste it for yourself. If you’ve never been to Moscow, this is your chance. It’s a beautiful, almost philosophical, musing on good versus evil, and how a single move, one tiny mistake, can tip the world one way or another. Plus, vampires. Plus, magicians. Plus, a mysterious world of dimensions (overgrown by blue moss, if not cleaned), where you can open doors that are locked in the real world.

To the story itself. A long long time ago a Treaty has been made between two opposing forces, the Dark Others, and the Light Others. Both sides have established a sort of police, the Night Watch (to police the Dark Others at night) and the Day Watch (to police the Light Ones during the day). Enter Twilight, the magical realm that exists underneath the real world, the place that dims your perceptions, sucks on your energy, the place that turns humans into Others once they step inside. The narrative is divided into three stories, mostly told by Anton Gorodetsky, the member of the Night Watch. There are vampire chases across nightly Moscow, mysterious owls, murderers with wooden daggers, dark vortices above human heads cast there by curses, silver bullets shot in Moscow metro, shape-shifters, witches, and, of course, vodka, drunks, notorious Moscow militia, and more. You should really read it, especially if you have never been to Moscow.
A great first book to a fantastic series. I've read books 1-5 in this series and I think they are tremendous. They remind me a bit of the Dresden Files series (gritty, urban, struggling hero that is nowhere close to omnipotent or omniscient. I'm not sure if he can write a book 6 - I almost hope he doesn't since it seems like he has done so well in exploring the potential of the universe he has created. These books were written over a number of years - the story arc is masterfully woven into all 5 books, and the author has done a brilliant job keeping you interested/caring about the characters that he has created.
Another aspect that I enjoyed is their Russo-centrism - remember Lukyanenko wrote these books in Russian for a Russian audience (the translation is flawless and the writing is terrific - you will read about Russian heroes and villains that you have never heard of, and there are some cultural references that you'll want to check out on Wikipedia - easy to do on ).
When you read these books you will find yourself almost exclusively in Moscow - events occurring here that have the potential to dramatically alter (or end) life everywhere on the planet (a very common theme in many other books I read, except it is events in NY, or Chicago, or DC, or LA, etc). I thought reading about the life there was fascinating (so close to the US, but also so different). If you read the books, check out when Lukyanenko first published them (he started in the 1990s) - while he doesn't put dates in his stories he is writing about contemporary Russia. Reading the challenges facing the people in the books, and their attitudes towards their problems, and life in general (in some ways so close the US, and in some ways so different) and reflecting on the actual events in Russia occurring when he wrote the stories is very interesting (depiction of government, military, police, crime, etc).
I bought this to check out the book after seeing the movie. The book and movie have the same characters, but the structure and stories are a bit different.
All in all, I find the book to be fun, easy to read and enjoy. Also, the fact that it's translated from Russian, gives us some insight to modern Russian culture and use of language.