Night Watch: A Novel
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Beschreibung
The agents of Light - the Night Watch - oversee nocturnal activity, while the agents of Dark keep watch over the day. For a thousand years both sides have maintained a precarious balance of power, but an ancient prophecy has decreed that a supreme Other will one day emerge, threatening to tip the scales. Now, that day has arrived. When a mid-level Night Watch agent named Anton stumbles upon a cursed young woman - an uninitiated Other with magnificent potential - both sides prepare for a battle that could lay waste to the entire city, possibly the world.
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This book is like a damn matryoshka: segmented into 3 stories. With each one we get a bit deeper into the game that Light and Dark are playing. Through all of this we walk in Antons head. Our main lead is a "former" sys-admin, working for the Night Watch. He's dragged involuntarily into action and the old conflict between Light and Dark. And here his personal crisis is born. Because there isn't a clear labeled evil, no unambiguos good. The philosophical babble was....maddening. I liked the wold Lukyanenko created. The multi-layered Twilight, the different supernatural beings living side by side under a tight controlled truce. But I really missed a lot of russian folklore, which could've been a great contibution to the standardized lot of supernatural creatures. Instead we're left with vampires, witches and shapeshifters. Oh and magicians of course. It's damn slow in parts. Frustrating, because Anton is so clueless and nobody else helps the reader along. So we're stuck. We don't know what's going on. We have no idea what the Dark is playing at, neither what the Light is planning and WHY. Everything gets clear after the shit hits the fan and we get to the last matryoshka, which is a damn romance. Bleh. I was disappointed. Under all those layers of great magicians plotting world domination, altering the course of history, discovering prodigies and hidden flashbacks to nameless stories of the past, it all comes down to a love story. And I don't even mind a good romance. I'm very happy to cry my eyes out to a tragic or/and beautiful love story. But Antons and Swetlanas falling-in-love happened somewhere out of sight. In the first story he's told that he'll fall for her and whoops, in the next story they're in love! Well, what do I do now, when I've got all 5 books sitting on the shelf. Hope it gets better. The potential is definetely there.
I didn’t manage to finish this book… the story and world building was interesting but somehow dialogue and explanations were confusing and chaotic, and at times I had to read things three or four times to get what was going on… don’t know if it’s due to the English translation though, it somehow felt like many things got lost in translation or between the lines
Beschreibung
The agents of Light - the Night Watch - oversee nocturnal activity, while the agents of Dark keep watch over the day. For a thousand years both sides have maintained a precarious balance of power, but an ancient prophecy has decreed that a supreme Other will one day emerge, threatening to tip the scales. Now, that day has arrived. When a mid-level Night Watch agent named Anton stumbles upon a cursed young woman - an uninitiated Other with magnificent potential - both sides prepare for a battle that could lay waste to the entire city, possibly the world.
Buchinformationen
Beiträge
This book is like a damn matryoshka: segmented into 3 stories. With each one we get a bit deeper into the game that Light and Dark are playing. Through all of this we walk in Antons head. Our main lead is a "former" sys-admin, working for the Night Watch. He's dragged involuntarily into action and the old conflict between Light and Dark. And here his personal crisis is born. Because there isn't a clear labeled evil, no unambiguos good. The philosophical babble was....maddening. I liked the wold Lukyanenko created. The multi-layered Twilight, the different supernatural beings living side by side under a tight controlled truce. But I really missed a lot of russian folklore, which could've been a great contibution to the standardized lot of supernatural creatures. Instead we're left with vampires, witches and shapeshifters. Oh and magicians of course. It's damn slow in parts. Frustrating, because Anton is so clueless and nobody else helps the reader along. So we're stuck. We don't know what's going on. We have no idea what the Dark is playing at, neither what the Light is planning and WHY. Everything gets clear after the shit hits the fan and we get to the last matryoshka, which is a damn romance. Bleh. I was disappointed. Under all those layers of great magicians plotting world domination, altering the course of history, discovering prodigies and hidden flashbacks to nameless stories of the past, it all comes down to a love story. And I don't even mind a good romance. I'm very happy to cry my eyes out to a tragic or/and beautiful love story. But Antons and Swetlanas falling-in-love happened somewhere out of sight. In the first story he's told that he'll fall for her and whoops, in the next story they're in love! Well, what do I do now, when I've got all 5 books sitting on the shelf. Hope it gets better. The potential is definetely there.
I didn’t manage to finish this book… the story and world building was interesting but somehow dialogue and explanations were confusing and chaotic, and at times I had to read things three or four times to get what was going on… don’t know if it’s due to the English translation though, it somehow felt like many things got lost in translation or between the lines