The Night Watch
Publisher,Arrow Books
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Format, Paperback
Weight, 420 g
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Walking the streets of Moscow, indistinguishable from the rest of its population, are the Others. 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 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...
Really exciting story about humans with supernatural power (called Others) living in modern-day Moscow. Great writing.
Really exciting story about humans with supernatural power (called Others) living in modern-day Moscow. Great writing.
The Night Watch is definitely worth a read, if you are interested in this time period.
The book is based in a world where Others exist alongside the human world we know. Others are your fantasy and creatures of legends, magicians, werewolves, vampires, etc. The Other society is split in to two factions, the light ones and the dark ones who have been fighting an enternal battle. The battle continues but the two sides have agreed upon some basic rules and these are enforced by police forces on either side, the Night Watch (light ones) and Day Watch (dark ones). While it seems like a straight forward good (light ones) versus evil (dark ones), the author works to show that it's not always that clean cut.
Set in modern day Moscow, Night Watch is a world as elaborate and imaginative as Tolkien or the best Asimov. Living among us are the "Others", an ancient race of humans with supernatural powers who swear allegiance to either the Dark or the Light. A thousand-year treaty has maintained the balance of power, and the two sides coexist in an uneasy truce. But an ancient prophecy decrees that one supreme "Other" will rise up and tip the balance, plunging the world into a catastrophic war between the Dark and the Light.