It kind of reminded me of old spy movies, all grey skies, long overcoats, and clandestine meetings. There’s a definite Cold War mentality that hangs over the novel. Given how the book was written in 1998, I’m guessing that we can blame the Night Watch for Putin coming to power. The first is about Anton’s first field mission (and how it goes horribly wrong), the second is about Anton being framed for murder (well, magic-murder), and the third is about a plot to rewrite the course of history.

The book’s divided up into three parts- three independent novellas, really. The book’s central character is Anton, a middle-ranking analyst in the Night Watch who naturally gets caught up in the various conspiracies. The forces of the Light make up the Night Watch (because they chase after the beasties at night), and they’re policed themselves whenever the sun comes up, and the Day Watch gets to be in charge. Now, the gimmick is, there’s a detente between the Light and the Dark, to the point where the two sides police each other. The premise is fairly simple there are ‘Dark Ones’ and ‘Light Ones,’ hiding their powers from humanity and plotting against each other. This didn’t stop them from shelving it under the Horror section at the used bookstore, though…but what can you do. Just not messy enough to be proper horror, I guess. Oh sure, there’s the occasional vampire or demon, but the book’s more in the vein of Urban Fantasy than anything. Night Watch is kind of throwing my October Horror schtick off, because it’s not really a horror novel. My dad once told me a joke about Russian literature: “Ivan looked out the window, and a thousand thoughts went through his head. 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.Book Review: Sergei Lukyanenko’s Night Watch 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. The Night Watch, first book in the Night Watch trilogy, follows Anton, a young Other owing allegiance to the Light. Possessors of supernatural powers and capable of entering the Twilight, a shadowy parallel world existing 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 Othe Walking the streets of Moscow, indistinguishable from the rest of its population, are the Others. Walking the streets of Moscow, indistinguishable from the rest of its population, are the Others.

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