Day Watch
Book Two
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4.2 • 17 Ratings
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- $13.99
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Publisher Description
The second book in the internationally bestselling Night Watch series.
Set in contemporary Moscow, the Night Watch series tells the story of the Others, an ancient race of magicians, shape-shifters, vampires, and other supernatural beings that live among us, and swear allegiance to either the powers of Darkness, or the forces of Light. For the past 1000 years, the two sides have been locked in an uneasy truce, keeping their powers in balance as each side secretly plots to take the advantage for themselves. The forces of Darkness tasked with keeping the Light Others in check are the Day Watch.
In Day Watch, we follow the Dark Others, including a young witch with the tragic misfortune of falling in love with a Light Other, a powerful warlock who struggles to understand his purpose in the war, and a top lieutenant who worries that Zabulon, the leader of the Day Watch, is planning to betray him. Meanwhile, a powerful artifact with the ability to bring the most powerful Dark magician in history back to life has gone missing.
Day Watch maintains the clever, fast-paced style of the original, and shows the reader that even in a world of witches and wizards, vampires and werewolves, good and evil can be a matter of perspective.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The morally ambiguous second volume in Lukyanenko's trilogy (after 2006's Night Watch, a major literary and cinematic success in Russia) portrays the epic supernatural struggle between good and evil from the point-of-view of the witch Alisa Donnikova. Lukyanenko imagines a parallel reality, where human history has been shaped by a centuries-old conflict between the Dark Ones and the Light Ones, magical beings whose existence is kept carefully hidden from humanity. After Alisa, a Dark One, loses her powers in a minor confrontation with some Light Ones, she heads to the Crimea to recuperate at a girls' camp, where she feeds on children's nightmares. There she falls in love with Igor, who turns out to be a Light magician. The plot centers on the ramifications of their romance and the theft of Fafnir's Talon, a powerful artifact whose provenance is linked to the legendary Ring of the Nibelungs. Though the artifact conceit is less well developed than that of the truth-telling instrument in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials series, the fast-paced story augurs well for the last installment.
