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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. I liked the 2nd novella most, it was interesting, provided new background information and even linked to the real former USSR. The other two are well written but I had the impression that the author has started to break the rules of his own world, especially when dealing with the Dark magicians. It's a light read with wasted chances, I doubt that I will read the last part of the series. (  ) dread_dragon | Oct 21, 2009 |  I liked the 2nd novella most, it was interesting, provided new background information and even linked to the real former USSR. The other two are well written but I had the impression that the author has started to break the rules of his own world, especially when dealing with the Dark magicians. It's a light read with wasted chances, I doubt that I will read the last part of the series. ( ) dread_dragon | Oct 21, 2009 | I found this book, and others in the series, a lot of fun as well as a bit perplexing. I think it might have to do with the translation, especially of the dialogue and first person thoughts. I think it must be that something in the Russian slang is lost in translation so that in English, in American in particular, the phrases come out a bit dated and kind of cheesy. I love how this imaginative magical world Lukyanenko has created is blended with post-Soviet Moscow and other venues foreign to me. This time we get a country dacha and a train to Kazhakhstan. Somehow I don't find the endless and rather simplistic moral debates draining. There's a lot of energy in the books. I appreciate how Anton's matured from a novice Light Watchman to an experienced, and jaded, agent. I'll definitely read the next, and possibly last, book in the series, The Last Watch. (  ) citygirl | Apr 26, 2009 | A little bit too much soul-searching and pontificating for my liking in this final volume of the trilogy, but in between that there was a cracking story. (  ) unevendays | Dec 20, 2008 | Three interrelated stories, building a bit on the events in Day Watch, but it stands on it's own fairly well. Some interesting history on the Others and the Watches and the Inquisition, with much more exploration of the grey areas between them (as expected from the title of the book really). Anton stays in the narrator's seat this time, but his personal growth (disillusionment?) wasn't as fundamental as I was expecting. ( ) silentq | Sep 29, 2008 |  no reviews | add a review
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