Night Watch was a very interesting read and my first non-Anglo/American urban fantasy. However, when he discovers a girl under a terrible curse, his mission is diverted: a curse this monstrous means all of Moscow is in danger, and the Night Watch must race to save the city. He has been a sysadmin for the past few years, and this is his first active field mission: to find and stop a rogue vampire. Anton is a member of the Night Watch, the Light's police force against the powers of Darkness. Vampires can hunt and kill only via the approved lottery, and Light mages cannot perform healings and "remoralizations" at random.
Walk in with laughter on your lips and you'll be a servant of the Light step in with sadness and you'll be a creature of the Dark.Īfter eons of war between Light and Dark, the two forces have created an unholy truce: to maintain a balance between good and evil. Don't bring anger or greed or sadness, because that first moment in the Twilight will alter your fate forever. If you walk into the Twilight, pray that you do so with a merry heart. While it will grant you powers, it will also leech away your humanity, transforming you into an Other: an inhuman, immortal being who sees the world as inalterably divided into Light and Dark. Summon up your own shadow and let it pull you into the Twilight, the liminal land of heartless greys and mysterious shadows, where truths cannot be hidden and where magic is real. There are, always and only, the bad people, but some of them are on opposite sides."-Terry Pratchett
"You find life such a problem because you think there are good people and bad people. As the two sides prepare for battle, Anton discovers that their destinies are closely intertwined, and the slightest wrong move could cause the destruction of Moscow, or even the world. Night Watch features Anton Gorodetsky, a mid-level Light magician, who during his first field assignment, stumbles upon a cursed young woman-an Other of tremendous potential power who has yet to choose between Light and Darkness. The forces of the Light tasked with keeping the Dark Others in check are the Night Watch. For the past 1000 years, the two sides have been locked in an uneasy truce, keeping their powers in balance as each side secretly plots to take the advantage for themselves. The Night Watch series tells the story of the Others, an ancient race of magicians, shape-shifters, vampires, and other supernatural beings that live among us, and swear allegiance to either the powers of Darkness or the forces of Light.
The explosive first installment in Serge Lukyanenko's visionary and internationally bestselling Night Watch series-an inventive blend of atmospheric urban fantasy and riveting spy thriller set in contemporary Moscow "Like Tolkien getting mugged in a Moscow back alley by John Le Carre." -Bleeding Cool
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