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Review - The Last Watch
Mar. 13th, 2010 12:13 amThe Last Watch (Sergei Lukyanenko)
There's something about these books... They're compelling when you're reading them, yet at the same time I think I've put all of them down for long stretches of time, too. Anyway, this is the sequel to the Night Watch trilogy. It's an interesting follow-up, and I was glad to see it avoided one thing that I would have considered a major pitfall (juicing Anton up with even more power). The moral struggles seem less important, though, and it's not so much focused on the Watches, which gives it a bit of a different flavour.
Sergei Lukyanenko uses the same kind of tricks/misdirections as he does in the original trilogy, so I did guess the surprises ahead of time. I loved the stuff with Merlin and the references to Arthur. All in all, though, I hope Sergei Lukyanenko leaves this particular world alone now -- I don't see that there's more he could/should do.
There's something about these books... They're compelling when you're reading them, yet at the same time I think I've put all of them down for long stretches of time, too. Anyway, this is the sequel to the Night Watch trilogy. It's an interesting follow-up, and I was glad to see it avoided one thing that I would have considered a major pitfall (juicing Anton up with even more power). The moral struggles seem less important, though, and it's not so much focused on the Watches, which gives it a bit of a different flavour.
Sergei Lukyanenko uses the same kind of tricks/misdirections as he does in the original trilogy, so I did guess the surprises ahead of time. I loved the stuff with Merlin and the references to Arthur. All in all, though, I hope Sergei Lukyanenko leaves this particular world alone now -- I don't see that there's more he could/should do.
