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Because his books no longer stand separate from his politics as those politics put all those little snippets of intolerance throughout them into a sharper, clearer relief, really changing how I see them now.Ģ014: *** Here are the reasons why I will never read another one of Lukyanenko's books. And mine is - the thoughts of the books by this author make bile rise in my throat and a wave of nausea to start. But that was then and this is now, and Lukyanenko is allowed to have his opinions (. With language that throbs like darkly humorous hard-rock lyrics about blood and power, freedom and responsibility, Night Watch is a chilling, cutting-edge thriller, a pulse-pounding ride of fusion fiction that will leave you breathless for the next instalment.Ģ022: Yeah, naive me in 2014 thought there was no need to change my rating of this book. 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, possible the world. 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. The agents of the Dark – the Night Watch – oversee nocturnal activity, while the agents of the Light keep watch over the day. This epic saga chronicles the eternal war of the “Others,” an ancient race of humans with supernatural powers who must swear allegiance to either the Dark or the Light. Set in contemporary Moscow, where shape shifters, vampires, and street-sorcerers linger in the shadows, Night Watch is the first book of the hyper-imaginative fantasy pentalogy from best-selling Russian author Sergei Lukyanenko. continues to work because the magic is rooted in the realities of modern Russia. Something modern, new and distinctly creepy. When a particular kind of story, heavily based in one culture, gets transferred into a culture distinctly different, something magical happens. surprisingly readable and relies on suspense and psychological drama and a good dose of humour - rather than blood and guts * Daily Telegraph * cracking read, owing more to Rowling or Philip Pullman than it does to the horror genre. arguably Russia's richest and most famous literary talent of the moment.
So good that the film feels like a trailer for it * Time Out * a chiller thriller from cold of Russia, this one's been selling like hot cakes around the world * Sunday Sport *
This modern day mythical fantasy is Anne Rice on an epic scale, a hugely imagined world.
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