The Twilight Watch
Product Description
Night Watch and Day Watch, the first two books in this remarkable series, established Sergei Lukyanenko as a breathtakingly bold talent. Part fantasy, part vampire tale, and part detective potboiler, this is the most successful science fiction series of all time in Russia and a right international sensation. In America, Fox Searchlight released the film adaptation of Night Watch to rapturous reviews, and adaptations of the next two books are in production. The world of Lukyanenko is as elaborate and imaginative as Tolkien or the best Asimov: Living among us are the “Others,” an ancient race of humans with supernatural powers who swear allegiance to either the Dark or the Light. A thousand-year treaty has mai… More >>
This novel was better than the first two, I reckon, in that it is written like a novel instead of a collection of loosely related tales. We all like Anton and prefer the viewpoint to stay on him
What does bug me is with each new book he comes out, he has more and more and more American despise. I mean come on, how often do you need to trash Americans, you don’t see American novelists writing such crap like that about Russians.
Unfortunately the next couple of books have been written already in Russian, I can only wait and see what anti-American stuff he has in that. Oh well, the book is fantastic, I encourage everyone to read it!
Rating: 4 / 5
I really liked “Nightwatch”. But after I dragged myself through “Daywatch” I should have stopped. Instead, hopeless optimist that I am, I trudged through “Twilightwatch”. By the time this book finished, every character felt identical, Sergei did not even bother differentiating their speech patterns or their mannerisms, or anything. In fact, the characterization was so poor, I figured out that whenver a character showed personality, it was a clue as to what was about to happen. The third (also the final) tale in this book was so terrible, it played out like an over-the-top session of Dungeons and Dragons. On that note, the final confrontation really felt like it was written by a “rules lawyer” type of D&D player.
Sad to say, I was really hoping that this book would at least be better than “Daywatch”, at it wasn’t. “Nightwatch” was fantastic, but people looking for better-than-generic fiction should avoid “Twilightwatch” at all costs.
Rating: 2 / 5
As the first reveiwer did an brilliant job I will not rehash the tale line
Another brilliant Watch book. This one has some fascinating concepts and the tales tie together more than in previous books. If you liked the first two then you will like this one
Rating: 5 / 5
Sergei, has made yet another hyper-realistic, hyper-stylized frenetic horrorfest, a fantastic follow up to the two classics, Nightwatch and Daywatch
Rating: 5 / 5
The movies made from the first two books also themselves carve out a new genre. Must see- and must read.
Rating: 5 / 5