Review of The Night Watch at SWI

“Love is happiness, but only when you believe it will last forever. Even though every time it turns out to be a lie, it’s only faith that gives love its strength and its joy.”-Sergei Lukyanenko.

Like a gust of fresh cold winter’s air on a midsummer’s day Russian author Sergei Vasilievich Lukyanenko steps up and revitalises a favourite fantasy world; presenting an eternal struggle between good and evil in a new and blinding light. With not a damn cape, count or coffin to be seen in a modern vivid urban Russia, replete with echoes of communism and the impact of free trade and the Mafia. Lukyanenko pulls no punches and drags you mercilessly into a world of gritty realism where there is a price to be paid for every thought, word and deed. With no fanfare or velvet build up, the unseen world of Twilight, inhabited by dark ones and light ones or known collectively as “others” is revealed. Full Review