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The Night Watch

Sergei Lukyanenko

Walking the streets of Moscow, indistinguishable from the rest of its population, are the Others. Magicians capable of entering the Twilight, a shadowy world that exists in parallel to our own, each Other owes allegiance either to the Dark or the Light.

The Night Watch, first book in the Night Watch Trilogy, follows Anton, a young Other owing allegiance to the Light. As a Night Watch agent he must patrol the streets and metro of the city protecting ordinary people from the vampires and magicians of the Dark. When he comes across Svetlana, a young woman under a powerful curse, and saves an unfledged Other, Egor from vampires, he becomes involved in events that threaten the uneasy truce and the whole city...

A very readable book that interleaves questions of destiny, freewill, morality and what it means to be good or evil and the against a relatively simple supernatural/fantasy backdrop.

29 Apr 2008 19:08 | (0) comments | Books

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