Author:Sergei Lukyanenko
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 series, 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...
This modern day mythical fantasy is Anne Rice on an epic scale, a hugely imagined world ... a chiller thriller from cold of Russia, this one's been selling like hot cakes around the world
So good that the film feels like a trailer for it
—— Time OutJK Rowling, Russian style ... arguably Russia's richest and most famous literary talent of the moment ... [a] cracking read, owing more to Rowling or Philip Pullman than it does to the horror genre ... surprisingly readable and addictive...it relies on suspense and psychological drama and a good dose of humour - rather than blood and guts
—— Daily TelegraphWhen a particular kind of story, heavily based in one culture, gets transferred into a culture distinctly different, something magical happens ... Something modern, new and distinctly creepy ... continues to work because the magic is rooted in the realities of modern Russia ... Inventive, sardonic, and imbued with a surprising the sense that, for this author and his audience, much of this stuff is new-minted
—— IndependentNight Watch is an epic of extraordinary power
—— Quentin TarantinoStar Wars meets the Vampires in Moscow . . . it bursts with a sick, carnivorous glee in its fiendish games
—— The New York Times[A] sceptical, intelligent thriller
—— The TelegraphFascinating . . . [The] excellent translation by Andrew Bromfield keeps the pace moving . . . One of the most original and readable supernatural fictions in some time
—— Scotland on SundayBrace yourself for Harry Potter in Gorky Park . . . The novel contains some captivating scenes and all kinds of marvelous, inventive detail: The vampires' seduction of a teenage boy is bone-chilling; every time Lukyanenko described the Other-worldly Twilight, I felt lured into it; and the fantastical powers exercised by Anton and his colleagues range from delightful to awesome
—— Ron Charles , The Washington Post Book WorldLukyanenko is great at rolling out new concepts for the reader to savour
—— The Sydney Morning Herald[As] potent as a shot of vodka . . . [A] compelling urban fantasy
—— Publishers WeeklyThis modern day mythical fantasy is Anne Rice on an epic scale, a hugely imagined world. A chiller thriller from cold of Russia, this one's been selling like hot cakes around the world
—— Sunday Sport
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