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by Sergei Lukyanenko, Andrew Bromfield
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Bettie's Books
Bettie's Books rated it 16 years ago
Work read.Dear M is reading Day Watch and taunting me with his excitement and immersement - so I will have to dive into this first book.Opening lines of the Prologue : The escalator strained slowly upward. In an old station like this, what else would you expect? But the wind swirled like a wild thin...
This Bookish Endeavor
This Bookish Endeavor rated it 16 years ago
Bizarre, and surreal...this book is hard to keep up with at times. I'm not sure if some of the story has been lost in the translation into English from the original Russian, but the plot can be confusing at times. But, the story is still hypnotizing, and in the end i was left wanting to read more ab...
Arbie's Unoriginally Titled Book Blog
Vampires, shape-shifters, witches, magicians...nothing new there. Light, Dark, the Balance...nothing new there either. So why do I like this book so much? Well, in the imagination stakes, there is the Twilight, which does seem original to me, but really it is the character and setting that I like...
Chris' Fish Place
Chris' Fish Place rated it 16 years ago
There is something about the Watch series by Lukyanenko. It is, quite simply, the idea of what good and evil are. The first book sets that up, and while it hinges on the idea of love (strangly Olga and Gesar seem more of pair than Anton and his girlfriend), but also on the idea of choice and what ...
CheriePie's Books
CheriePie's Books rated it 17 years ago
Living in modern day Moscow, the "Others" are an ancient race of humans with supernatural powers. Each Other pledges allegiance to either the Light or the Dark, and each side has a Watch—Night Watch for the Light and Day Watch for the Dark—whose responsibility it is to maintain the balance between ...
Bun's Books
Bun's Books rated it 56 years ago
I dunno, might come back and give it a fourth star, might not. Really really liked the depiction of modern Moscow, the characters of the people in both Watches. I was amused by how much it felt like a police procedural in places - complaints about not having the right boots on to stand around in th...
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