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Night Watch (1998)

af Sergei Lukyanenko

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Fantasy. Fiction. Science Fiction. HTML:

The explosive first installment of the internationally bestselling Night Watch series, now back in print

Set in contemporary Moscow, 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. 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 forces of the Light tasked with keeping the Dark Others in check are the Night Watch.


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. 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.


With darkly comic style and a plot that's equal parts urban fantasy, spy thriller, and chess match, Night Watch will keep readers hooked until the last page, and eager for more.… (mere)

  1. 90
    Amerikanske guder af Neil Gaiman (citygirl)
    citygirl: When the supernatural collides with modern life. One in Moscow, one in the US.
  2. 40
    Stormfront af Jim Butcher (FFortuna)
  3. 30
    The City & The City af China Miéville (julienne_preacher)
    julienne_preacher: Both books are about divided realities (and both books are awesome).
  4. 31
    A Madness of Angels af Kate Griffin (simon211175)
  5. 10
    Lad den rette komme ind : skrækroman af John Ajvide Lindqvist (Lucy_Skywalker)
  6. 00
    Vita Nostra af Sergey Dyachenko (Lucy_Skywalker)
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This is the first Russian authored book I've read. Being that I am from America, it's really quite funny how Americans are portrayed the few times mentioned.

Overall I enjoyed reading it! I don't read a lot of books with witches and warlocks and magicians, and I typically find them cheesy (I am still not tempted to pick up Harry Potter), but I really enjoyed this story and characters. The ending was super cheese, and it was a bit of a cop out in my opinion. My friend who only reads books and watches movies that have happy endings would love this book. I didn't learn anything about myself reading this, nor did I really learn anything about the world (maybe perhaps a bit about Russian culture), but it was enjoyable enough; a nice break from the usual stuff that makes me question my existence. ( )
  baeblotz | Oct 21, 2023 |
I only made it through the first short story.
It wasn't bad but the further I got the less I enjoyed it.
I usually enjoy a good somber and gloomy mood in a book but here the simplistic fatalism made it all feel so pointless. I just couldn't understand why anyone in this story had enough drive to even get out of the bed in the morning. It all felt to me like everyone should just keel over on the spot, roll into a ball and rock back and forth.
To be frank "why didn't you just kill yourself already" went through my mind repeatedly.
Instead of caring more I kept caring less and less because I had real trouble to connect to anyone in this depressing cast.
The book tries very hard to be wise but never really makes it past the obvious in the context of philosophy and its attempts at hiding that behind mystery shroud™ isn't able to disguise it.
A lot of the interesting parts of the world were pointlessly hidden behind this ominous mystery shroud™.
The first story ends with a blatant sledgehammer foreshadowing which completely killed any vestiges of interest to read on for me.
It could've been a play on the free will vs destiny thingy and not actual prophecy which was a carefully broached topic a few times but even if- that still was very crude either way.
So, all the gloom instead of being mysterious was just depressing and the philosophy instead of being intriguing it was just unrefined and shallow.
Despite all that, I think a good 3/5 star rating for the first story is fair.
This might be a case of its not you, it's me. If you hit me with philosophy I need the full packet. I have a bad time dealing with philosophy-light.

Just a quick reminder that my reviews always sound very negative. I usually only talk about the flaws and how I felt about them. Pay attention to the star rating for how I feel overall about a book. ( )
  omission | Oct 19, 2023 |
I loved this whole series, and what limited other works of the author are available in English (skip the trash movie adaptations). Given how prolific the author is, I really wish more of his work was available in English. Also, does anyone have any recommendations for other Russian scifi/fantasy/horror authors that might be worth my time? ( )
  jdavidhacker | Aug 4, 2023 |
The Others walk the streets of Moscow, split into the Night Watch, those of the light who watch over the actions of the dark, and the Night Watch, who do the opposite, in the effort to maintain the balance between good and evil. This follows Anton, who stumbles across Svetlana and Egor, both unaligned humans who have become embroiled in events that threaten the whole city and the truce that exists between the light and the dark.

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  lyrrael | Aug 3, 2023 |
Pasean por las calles de Moscú, indistinguibles del resto de la población, y se llaman a sí mismos los Otros. Son criaturas con poderes excepcionales que han perdido su humanidad y pueden internarse en el Crepúsculo, un mundo de sombras paralelo al nuestro. Cada Otro ha tenido que jurar lealtad o bien a la Luz o bien a las Tinieblas. Ambos bandos conviven en una difícil tregua desde que, tiempo atrás, para impedir el caos y la aniquilación, firmaron un pacto y crearon dos patrullas "la Guardia Nocturna" y "la Guardia Diurna" para vigilarse de cerca. Su objetivo no es destruirse, sino mantener el precario equilibrio entre el bien y el mal. Sin embargo, una antigua profecía dice que un día aparecerá un poderoso Otro que será tentado por uno de los bandos e inclinará la balanza. Ese día ha llegado.
  Natt90 | Jan 27, 2023 |
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Fantasy. Fiction. Science Fiction. HTML:

The explosive first installment of the internationally bestselling Night Watch series, now back in print

Set in contemporary Moscow, 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. 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 forces of the Light tasked with keeping the Dark Others in check are the Night Watch.


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. 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.


With darkly comic style and a plot that's equal parts urban fantasy, spy thriller, and chess match, Night Watch will keep readers hooked until the last page, and eager for more.

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