So unpredictable!

Awesome novel! This is the best of vampire fiction!

In October I read Night Watch, for a Kazakhstan/Russian read. I picked up the sequel, Day Watch, as I enjoyed it so much. This book follows on, but instead of focusing on the Night Watch, it, as the name suggests focuses on the Day Watch. However I found this slightly not the case, as the stories frequently flick from the Day Watch agent's perspective to that of previously met Night Watch agents. Where as you felt in Night Watch that he liked his characters, does not seem to feel that way about the Day Watch and seems to keep running back to the previous characters he prefers more.

I noted the technology being dated a lot more in this book. I know they were walking around Moscow with minidisc players in the last book, but I viewed it as a quirk. However the running to their desktops to open Netscape to start searching made me laugh. Mental note to self, if ever I write a book, don't mention operating systems or search engines. In a few years they seem ridiculously out of date.

But it was still fun, just not as much. But you get taken further than Moscow in this volume, passing into the Crimea, Ukraine and Prague. I still will read the other two though. I still love the style of writing, the Russian tone. Cannot get enough of it.

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was good, but storyline wavered in places

Not as compelling as Night Watch, but still interesting and worth a read. Kind of interesting to explore the other side of the coin, after the first book focused on the good guys.

An enjoyable read without much substance. Started off very slow but got much better in the end.

A great sequel that gives the other prospective. It's always nice to read a series that is not one sided, but allows you to choose which side you belong to. For those who haven't read Night Watch should. The tales are set in Russia and deal with two opposing supernatural groups (known as "Others"): the Night Watch, an organization dedicated to policing the actions of the Dark Others—and the Day Watch, which polices the actions of the Light Others. Like with all things Russian it seems, it's very deep and thought provoking dealing with the literal and figurative interpurtations of good and evil and what are their bounderies.

I'm enjoying these.

Dieses Buch ist der zweite Teil in Lukianenkos Wächter-Reihe und um ehrlich zu sein, ist es fast schon eine Schande, dass ich so lange damit gewartet habe, dieses Buch zu lesen! Es gefiel mir sogar noch etwas mehr als Teil eins. Grundsätzlich erinnert die Aufteilung in Licht und Dunkle ein wenig an die Jedi und Sith aus Star Wars; jedoch hat Lukianenko das Ganze vertieft, das alte Gute-Böse-Schema aufgebrochen. Jeder hat seine Schwächen und seine Vorzüge. Eine weitere Stärke des Autoren ist sein durchdachter Aufbau der Geschichte. Kleinste Details werden wichtig, überall lauern Intrigen - selbst als Leser weiss man nie sicher, woran man ist. Handlungsstränge werden zusammengeführt, doch ob das wirklich die schlussendliche Lösung ist? Geht im Hintergrund noch mehr vor sich? Wir wissen es nicht. Deshalb: weiterlesen!