Book Review The Twilight Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko
January 4th 2008 22:03
Plot Synopsis
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The third in the internationally bestselling series from Russian author Sergei Lukyanenko
Three years have passed since the events of The Day Watch. His wife and daughter spending the summer on a dacha not far from Moscow where Anton is working when his boss Gesser reveals he has received an anonymous note. An Other has exposed the truth about their kind to a human, and now intends to convert that human into an Other.
The note has been sent to Zebulon and to the Inquisition's offices in Berne - a place whose address only the highest level of mages and sorcerers know. Now cooperating, the Night Watch and the Day Watch, along with an Investigator from the Inquisition, seek to unmask the culprit. Anton will represent the Night Watch, while the Day Watch is sending High Vampire Kostya Saushkin, once Anton's teenage neighbour.
Installed in the apartment complex to which the letter writer has been traced, Anton begins to investigate the residents one by one. Reviewing the dossiers of the building's inhabitants, Anton comes across a familiar - albeit much younger - face. Could Gesser be trying initiate his son as an Other?
After reviewing the second volume The Day Watch, I was really looking forward to reading the third instalment but to be honest I ended up feeling some what disappointed by it. All the same characters are there with a couple of new ones introduced but the story just doesn't feel the same.
The writing and plotting are on par and what you would expect after reading the first two books, but then again that could be part of the problem. The formula is getting a bit stale with gesar's endless plotting and with each book around the 440 pages mark, by the thrid volume there seems to be alot of padding in between the more interesting parts.
These books aren't cheap at $37.99NZ and was I left feeling short changed with this thrid instalement. This sells itself as vol three of the Night Watch trilogy but as I read online today, there is going to be a fourth book called The Last Watch. So you have to wonder if the first book was an unexpected hit and the rest are just by the numbers?
This was a disappointment as it promised much but in the end didn't deliver.
kiwiauthor rating 6/10
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