The Night Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko


I bought this book after seeing a trailer for the movie which included a battle scene that looked like something out of the LOTR movies. When I started reading the book, I realised it was completely different from what I had perceived so it kinda threw me a bit.

The Night Watch, the forces of Light, and the Day Watch, the forces of the Dark, have reached an uneasy status quo where they prevent each other from becoming too powerful. If the Night Watch commit an act of good, the Day Watch can retaliate by doing an act of evil of equal power. There are three stories woven into the tale, each one threatening to upset the precarious balance.

I’m not actually sure how I feel about this book because I found some parts of it hard to read and suspect that has more to do with the translation more than anything else. It certainly wasn’t what I thought it was going to be about and for that reason alone, I feel the need to read again once I’ve finished the sequels.

I did rent the movie but found it dreadful.

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