New Watch (Night Watch Series #5)

by Sergei Lukyanenko

Overview

A frightening new danger arises to threaten the Twilight. . . .

For a millennium, the Others have maintained an uneasy peace that has protected them and the Twilight, a shadowy parallel world beneath our own. But the battle for supremacy between the forces of the Light and the Darkness is far from over. . . .

Now older and more powerful, Light magician Anton Gorodetsky has risen to the top levels of the Night Watch. He is also father to a ten-year-old girl who is destined to become a magician of unprecedented power. When he hears a young boy at the airport screaming that a plane will crash, Anton suspects the child is a prophet—a rare type of Other who portends catastrophe.

If Anton is right, then the boy has awakened a terrifying danger—a rare, multifaced beast that exists to stop the prophecy from coming true. With their lives in mortal peril and time running out, Anton must find a way to keep his gifted young daughter safe . . . and save the Twilight itself.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780062310088
Publisher:	HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date:	04/22/2014
Series:	Night Prince #04 , #5
Sold by:	HARPERCOLLINS
Format:	eBook
Pages:	384
Sales rank:	149,103
File size:	965 KB

About the Author

Sergei Lukyanenko was born in Kazakhstan and educated as a psychiatrist. He began publishing science fiction in the 1980s and has published more than twenty-five books. He lives in Moscow with his wife and son.

Editorial Reviews

03/15/2014
In this dark urban fantasy series, two opposing forces of supernatural beings known as the Others—the Night Watch on the side of the Light and the Day Watch, who follow the Dark—keep an uneasy truce. Each side's purpose is to make sure the other Watch does not interfere with humans, swaying them to one side or the other. Series hero and high-level Light magician Anton Gorodetsky (from The Last Watch) discovers a young Other with the rare gift of prophecy, but powers that live in the Twilight will kill to ensure no Other is ever allowed to speak a prophecy aloud. VERDICT The simple dichotomy of Light versus Dark has a surprisingly large amount of ambiguity and nuance, as Anton struggles with the rules of his Watch and the protection of his family. This series deserves a larger U.S. audience, and now readers can catch up with their Russian comrades. [The film adaptation of the first volume of the series, Night Watch, became a box-office hit in Russia.—Ed.]

Library Journal

02/24/2014
Lukyanenko’s fifth Night Watch novel (after 2008’s The Last Watch) featuring members of the Others, magical beings grouped into the Light Ones and the Dark Ones, succeeds in its playful approach to the supernatural thriller genre. The plot centers on the consequences of a chance meeting at the Moscow Airport, where Anton Gorodetsky, a Higher White Magician encounters a child, Innokentii Grigorievich Tolkov, who’s really a Prophet, a rare type of Other who can predict his own fate, and who is being stalked by a Twilight Creature known as a Tiger. While the stakes are unsurprisingly high, frequent injections of humor help separate this entry from the pack; at one point, characters discuss how the publication of the Harry Potter books has helped them convince young Others that they are not exactly human (“Children grasp the basic idea without even a blink now”). (Apr.)

Publishers Weekly