The Day Watch (Watch, Book 2)

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Customer Reviews:

Best Ever [Posted on 2008-05-06]
Day Watch is the second greatest story created the first would be Night Watch. The books are pheononminal!

Day Watch [Posted on 2008-05-08]
As with Twilight Watch, this is an excellent book to own and read. My Wife, ReynaVoop recommended this as well as Twilight watch, and she's never been wrong about the quality of the books.

Formulaic, Poorly Written and Overblown [Posted on 2008-07-16]
It seems as though any author whose prose are at least grammatically sound can receive fawning praise in the modern fantasy ghetto. Sergei Lukyanenko's 'sequel' to The Nightwatch is simply put a very poor novel. Its characters are flat, its plot structure mind-numbingly repetitive (particularly when considered in light of the previous novel) and it's fantastic mechanisms lacking in both originality and credibility.

Sadly, the first story in the three-story book shows real promise. The character, a charismatic young witch, is credible, thoughtful and thought-provoking. Her actions are realistic, sufficiently selfish to have an edge of reprehensibility. Her occasional cruelty is justifiable in the context of her life and story, and the tale of her downfall is all the more poignant due to the fact that her characterization and even her own internal monologue make it clear that she is not actually evil. She is, in a word, a great anti-hero. Suffice it to say she does not show up again.

The rest of the stories are chock-full of deus ex machina, horrendously thin exposition and a storytelling style that is best described as 'plot-by-coincidence'. It's simply not acceptable as a second novel from a writer who has, if anything, taken a step backward from his first.

Great Sequel [Posted on 2008-07-28]
I won't write a summary of the book, as that's already been done in countless reviews, but I will leave you with this: If you enjoyed the first book, then you will also enjoy this second installment in the series.

Day Watch was a fantastic read that I couldn't put down. The book gives you perspective into the Dark ones; you soon realize that the Light ones aren't "good" and the Dark Ones aren't "evil", there are hints of good and evil in both factions.

Can't wait to get my hands on Twilight Watch.

My Darker Side Was All Giddy.... [Posted on 2008-09-04]
The second book in the Watch series that mainly follows Alisa; Anton is still here but not in the capacity that we have grown accustomed. This is do to this book is from the perspective of the Day Watch (Dark Others). This gets us more in touch with the other sides characters and even sheds light on why dark and light others don't mix....or shouldn't? You get to learn a lot more about Alisa the right hand of Zebulon and even how Zebulon's mind works. I liked this one more because it was a way quicker read for me but that's mainly because most characters were introduced in the first and the plot lines of the stories pushed me on. The format is that of the original, with three stories making up one book. But they always end up going full circle and they conclude so you don't have to worry about being kept hanging.

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