Today we will take for the week started with a book review Night Watch Sergei Lukyanenko and, of course, can also find Shvoong and H-Horror . I also wanted to congratulate Montse de Paz, author of Wild Kindred (among other books) to win the VIII Award Minotaur 2011 in the category of Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature for his novel City starless . Congratulations to the author! And now, here's the review: 
Author: Sergey Lukyanenko
Editorial: DeBolsillo
512 pages
ISBN: 9788499082806
1 st edition in this editorial: 2010
The eternal struggle between Good and Evil is about to unfold in Moscow today.
walk the streets of Moscow, indistinguishable from the rest of the population, and they call themselves Others. They are creatures with special powers who have lost their humanity and can penetrate into the Twilight, a shadowy world parallel to ours. Each Other has had to swear allegiance either to the Light or the Darkness.
Both sides coexist in an uneasy truce since, long ago, to prevent chaos and annihilation, signed an agreement and created two patrols (the Night Watch and Day Guard) to be closely monitored. His goal is not to destroy, but to maintain the precarious balance between good and evil, however, an ancient prophecy says that one day will be a powerful Other will be tempted by one of the sides and tip the balance. That day has arrived ... Night Watch is a fantasy thriller stomping beat and dazzling originality and intelligence, one of those books that transcends the boundaries of their gender. Set in the complex and contradictory Russia today, this novel (a book of worship guaranteed by the international success) reveals a world where an evil act must be offset by a benevolent action, where beings are torn between their lost humanity and its new powers, and explore the universal themes freedom and responsibility, purpose and means, the eternal struggle between Good and Evil, and the blurred line that separates them.
A priori, it would seem that this is one of those stories of struggle conventional sides of Light against Darkness and, while not an original idea in itself, the treatment we Kazakhstan gives this writer who lives in Russia does not stop be attractive in its approach. We start with the idea of \u200b\u200ba confrontation set controlled by a pact signed millennia ago by the heads of the two sides. In that agreement, emerged two guards, the Guard Day, to preserve the day of the influence of light , and Night Watch, which does the same with the Dark . We can say that, despite this, the city is not free of insurgents and rebels of the system, or even ignorant to know their nature and the covenant to which they are subjected Other the planet, because yes, Other are human (or at least someday were), but not all who are or are everyone, and one of the functions of these officers is to find others like them to capture them and bow their aspirations to their own side facing the final fight mention his prophecies. To this is added the interrelationship of these gifted supernatural available to go into a sort of dimension to the Twilight called that, in turn, seems to possess its own life and who thrives on deep into it. Twilight This has several levels of depth, depending on the category of Light or tenebrous are more or less accessible. These are the basic precepts of the whole plot, which we must add the intention of the senior management of each party seeking to tip the balance to his side and subtle scheming plans whose purpose is subject to a large number of matches and events scheduled potential of each of the characters in the novel. None of them is on this story so trivial, everyone has their reason for being. Are actors in a large network whose directors manipulated at will and without ceremony. Not obvious that, regardless of the inclination of the Other to make Good or Bad , there are different creatures who inhabit this particular universe among which we find: Wizards, Vampires or therianthropic.
This is the premise on which moves the story of Anton Gorodetsky, a tertiary Another member of the Night Watch which is engaged in a plot that goes far beyond that beyond one of simple missions that are used to. This is where you begin to weave a complex plan that will lead us in the first person to speculate on the magical world around the streets of this modern Moscow.
Some say, as I warned before, that there is nonstandard in this Trilogy Guard and talk about books as American Gods by Neil Gaiman or RPGs White Wolf as a reference to gender and as a history of Sergei literature, sources that may have been drinking. However, I encourage everyone to start reading the trilogy (now that was just reprinted in the hands of the Editorial DeBolsillo ), because despite being a prose somewhat harsh and cold, like a shot of vodka capella, is not at all heavy, but quite the opposite, and that's perfectly suited to the climate of melancholy that seeps into the novel and its characters, trapped in a world of doubters elected but constantly and can not and exit. If we want an incentive to encourage us to read Night Watch , note that the author has received dozens of awards for his works and in 2003 was named best European writer in the Eurocontrol of Turku, Finland. This trilogy also was a bestseller in Russia, reaching the category of Best Sellers a million copies sold and translations of it more than ten languages. Also, for the lazy, the first two parts of the trilogy were filmed with some dignity but, as usual, at least the first book, casts a shadow on adaptation. But they are there if you want to see films, both directed by Timur Bekmambetov in 2004 and 2006 respectively. As I say, do not expect much, deserves much more worthwhile to read the books, but as experience and ideas are not bad.
For lovers of the kind of fantasy that goes into our reality and mixed with it, this is a novel worth reading.
Night Watch
Original title: Nochnoy dozor (Night Watch) Author: Sergey Lukyanenko
Editorial: DeBolsillo
512 pages
ISBN: 9788499082806
1 st edition in this editorial: 2010
The eternal struggle between Good and Evil is about to unfold in Moscow today.
walk the streets of Moscow, indistinguishable from the rest of the population, and they call themselves Others. They are creatures with special powers who have lost their humanity and can penetrate into the Twilight, a shadowy world parallel to ours. Each Other has had to swear allegiance either to the Light or the Darkness.
Both sides coexist in an uneasy truce since, long ago, to prevent chaos and annihilation, signed an agreement and created two patrols (the Night Watch and Day Guard) to be closely monitored. His goal is not to destroy, but to maintain the precarious balance between good and evil, however, an ancient prophecy says that one day will be a powerful Other will be tempted by one of the sides and tip the balance. That day has arrived ... Night Watch is a fantasy thriller stomping beat and dazzling originality and intelligence, one of those books that transcends the boundaries of their gender. Set in the complex and contradictory Russia today, this novel (a book of worship guaranteed by the international success) reveals a world where an evil act must be offset by a benevolent action, where beings are torn between their lost humanity and its new powers, and explore the universal themes freedom and responsibility, purpose and means, the eternal struggle between Good and Evil, and the blurred line that separates them.
A priori, it would seem that this is one of those stories of struggle conventional sides of Light against Darkness and, while not an original idea in itself, the treatment we Kazakhstan gives this writer who lives in Russia does not stop be attractive in its approach. We start with the idea of \u200b\u200ba confrontation set controlled by a pact signed millennia ago by the heads of the two sides. In that agreement, emerged two guards, the Guard Day, to preserve the day of the influence of light , and Night Watch, which does the same with the Dark . We can say that, despite this, the city is not free of insurgents and rebels of the system, or even ignorant to know their nature and the covenant to which they are subjected Other the planet, because yes, Other are human (or at least someday were), but not all who are or are everyone, and one of the functions of these officers is to find others like them to capture them and bow their aspirations to their own side facing the final fight mention his prophecies. To this is added the interrelationship of these gifted supernatural available to go into a sort of dimension to the Twilight called that, in turn, seems to possess its own life and who thrives on deep into it. Twilight This has several levels of depth, depending on the category of Light or tenebrous are more or less accessible. These are the basic precepts of the whole plot, which we must add the intention of the senior management of each party seeking to tip the balance to his side and subtle scheming plans whose purpose is subject to a large number of matches and events scheduled potential of each of the characters in the novel. None of them is on this story so trivial, everyone has their reason for being. Are actors in a large network whose directors manipulated at will and without ceremony. Not obvious that, regardless of the inclination of the Other to make Good or Bad , there are different creatures who inhabit this particular universe among which we find: Wizards, Vampires or therianthropic.
This is the premise on which moves the story of Anton Gorodetsky, a tertiary Another member of the Night Watch which is engaged in a plot that goes far beyond that beyond one of simple missions that are used to. This is where you begin to weave a complex plan that will lead us in the first person to speculate on the magical world around the streets of this modern Moscow.
Some say, as I warned before, that there is nonstandard in this Trilogy Guard and talk about books as American Gods by Neil Gaiman or RPGs White Wolf as a reference to gender and as a history of Sergei literature, sources that may have been drinking. However, I encourage everyone to start reading the trilogy (now that was just reprinted in the hands of the Editorial DeBolsillo ), because despite being a prose somewhat harsh and cold, like a shot of vodka capella, is not at all heavy, but quite the opposite, and that's perfectly suited to the climate of melancholy that seeps into the novel and its characters, trapped in a world of doubters elected but constantly and can not and exit. If we want an incentive to encourage us to read Night Watch , note that the author has received dozens of awards for his works and in 2003 was named best European writer in the Eurocontrol of Turku, Finland. This trilogy also was a bestseller in Russia, reaching the category of Best Sellers a million copies sold and translations of it more than ten languages. Also, for the lazy, the first two parts of the trilogy were filmed with some dignity but, as usual, at least the first book, casts a shadow on adaptation. But they are there if you want to see films, both directed by Timur Bekmambetov in 2004 and 2006 respectively. As I say, do not expect much, deserves much more worthwhile to read the books, but as experience and ideas are not bad.
For lovers of the kind of fantasy that goes into our reality and mixed with it, this is a novel worth reading.
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