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The Last Watch (Дозоры #4)
While on holiday in Scotland, visiting a macabre tourist attraction, "The Dungeons of Edinburgh," a young Russian tourist is murdered. As the police grapple with the fact that the cause of the young man’s death was a massive loss of blood, the Watches are immediately aware that there is a renegade vampire on the loose. Anton—the hero of
The Night Watch
,
The Day Watch
, an...more
Paperback, UK Printing, 394 pages
Published
2008
by William Heinemann/Random House Group Limited
(first published 2005)
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Feb 20, 2009
Noah Stacy
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Not as much to my liking as the earlier books in the series--this lacked the deep intrigue and scheming between the Light and Dark (or perhaps as much between Gesar and Zabulon as individuals) that made the earlier novels such fun. Still, a good read, and hopefully NOT the last of the Watches--there are still stories to be told, and I'd love to see what comes of little Nadya, and to find out why Zabulon seems to take such a personal interest in Anton...
Feb 11, 2009
Matt
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I love the Night Watch series by Lukyanenko. He has such a wonderfully Russian (by way of Kazakhstan) view point, where good and evil really do not look very different but are all shades of grey. All 4 books in this series grabbed me from page 1 and did not let go. The Last Watch was no exception. At first I was annoyed at some of the Anglo/Celtic themes in this 4th installment, but they were handled very well and did not become cheesy. I highly recommend this whole series. Read them in order (N...more
I am an utter, unapologetic Anton fangirl. I will not deny it. And when I finally managed to find a copy of The Last Watch at Borders, I did not hold back my squeal of joy.
Though not as good as the first three, this remains one of my favorite fantasy series. At times the writing seemed lazy, the humor was a little more base than what I had come to expect, and certain parts were more self-aware (of the popularity of the books/movies, at times a not-so-subtle *nudgewink* to the reader without any...more
Though not as good as the first three, this remains one of my favorite fantasy series. At times the writing seemed lazy, the humor was a little more base than what I had come to expect, and certain parts were more self-aware (of the popularity of the books/movies, at times a not-so-subtle *nudgewink* to the reader without any...more
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I really like the Night Watch series and this felt like it was going to be the last book and that makes me a little sad. This book follows Anton to new cities, introduces some new characters (Merlin?) and revisits some old opponents. I really appreciate how closely Anton walks between the Light and the Dark. A good read but you really do have to know the previous books in the series to appreciate this one.
Unlike the other books in the series, the three acts of this book all focus very clearly around a singular story. This may have been a choice by the other to reflect Anton's newfound awareness after the events of Twilight Watch.
In Act one Anton is on loan to the Edinburgh Nightwatch to pursue the murderer of a young man whose father is well connected. The story becomes complicated when mortals armed with magical weaponry attack Anton and his allies, and it becomes apparent that the site of the m...more
In Act one Anton is on loan to the Edinburgh Nightwatch to pursue the murderer of a young man whose father is well connected. The story becomes complicated when mortals armed with magical weaponry attack Anton and his allies, and it becomes apparent that the site of the m...more
So this is the fourth and, as far as I know, final book in the Night Watch series. Once again, Anton is our main character and narrator. Some time has passed since the events of Twilight Watch and Anton has continued getting accustomed to his new powers as a Great One. The book starts with a murder in Scotland that will see Anton traveling, meeting a number of other Watches, and coming face to face with the dead.
Simply put, if you liked the other Night Watch novels, you’ll probably dig this one...more
Simply put, if you liked the other Night Watch novels, you’ll probably dig this one...more
I really look forward to these books and wait patiently for them to come out. This one was no exception and it provided just what is always promised with his books. They are a bit formulaic in format which is fine, because he weaves a good story. Let me say this first, I love this series, and I get sucked into them, however, they are no great literary works. I also finally put my finger on what has bothered me for all four books. They move along a a great easy pace he lays the groundwork in two...more
This review is acceptable to the forces of Light. - The Night Watch
This review is acceptable to the forces of Darkness. - The Day Watch
When I finished The Twilight Watch a couple of years ago, I thought that was it. Night, Day, Twilight, done. But when I announced that I would be doing the Night Watch trilogy as my end-of-month podcast, I got several emails from listeners who were quick to correct me. The series is not a trilogy, they said, but rather a tetralogy (okay, no one actually used this...more
This review is acceptable to the forces of Darkness. - The Day Watch
When I finished The Twilight Watch a couple of years ago, I thought that was it. Night, Day, Twilight, done. But when I announced that I would be doing the Night Watch trilogy as my end-of-month podcast, I got several emails from listeners who were quick to correct me. The series is not a trilogy, they said, but rather a tetralogy (okay, no one actually used this...more
This is the series of novels that the Night Watch and Day Watch movies are based on. If you haven’t seen them you should, Russian or not they are pretty cool. The books follow the Moscow branches of the Night Watch and Day Watch made up of ‘others’. The Others are people with special abilities, sorcerers, witches vampires etc. They have been involved in a battle of good and evil for centuries, although a truce currently exists at the moment. This is simply to stop outright war between them destr...more
The russians definitely do not think the same way we do - it's interesting to see how much culture can influence basic beliefs, and how much basic beliefs will resist cultural influences.
The 4th of 4 books in a series exploring a war between - not good and evil. The dark and the light, or the yin and the yang. In the beginning of the series, it was clear one side was good and the other was evil. In the middle, it became a question of priorities - one side thought society was more important than...more
The 4th of 4 books in a series exploring a war between - not good and evil. The dark and the light, or the yin and the yang. In the beginning of the series, it was clear one side was good and the other was evil. In the middle, it became a question of priorities - one side thought society was more important than...more
Dec 22, 2011
Φλεγύας
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4 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Recommends it for:
anyone into urban fiction
The Watch series started off with a wimp, base level wizard and expanded to depths and lengths that IMHO no one could anticipate. I can't say much more without revealing too much. The reason I'm bringing this up however is because the fourth book only had one way to go. It had to push the envelop further. And it does.
Some of the other reviewers said that the book feels less polished than the previous ones. I don't know if I agree with that. I still feel the good vs evil war, excessively so as a...more
Some of the other reviewers said that the book feels less polished than the previous ones. I don't know if I agree with that. I still feel the good vs evil war, excessively so as a...more
Pues con este termino por fin la saga Night Watch, y he de decir que fué un viajecito, si bien no son las grandes obras de arte de la fantasía urbana, son muy buenos libros, ampliamente disfrutables, sin grandes complicaciones y bastante entretenidos.
Gran parte del porqué opino ello es porque están bastante bien apretados, en el sentido de que el autor en lugar de hacer una inmensa aventura épica se centra en algunos ciertos detalles muy específicos (12 detalles, 3 por cada libro [esto por cada...more
Gran parte del porqué opino ello es porque están bastante bien apretados, en el sentido de que el autor en lugar de hacer una inmensa aventura épica se centra en algunos ciertos detalles muy específicos (12 detalles, 3 por cada libro [esto por cada...more
Feb 20, 2011
Books-treasureortrash
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The stories all comprise the missing, hidden artifact of the great and famous Merlin, known as the Crown of All Things. Someone is searching for this artifact and will do almost anything to find it including murder. It is up to Anton, using his magical skills as well as his detective reasoning to discover what the artifact is, who is looking for it and why they want it. We also learn more about the world that Anton lives in, including all the levels of the Twilight and...more
The stories all comprise the missing, hidden artifact of the great and famous Merlin, known as the Crown of All Things. Someone is searching for this artifact and will do almost anything to find it including murder. It is up to Anton, using his magical skills as well as his detective reasoning to discover what the artifact is, who is looking for it and why they want it. We also learn more about the world that Anton lives in, including all the levels of the Twilight and...more
Just finished this fourth volume in the Night Watch series. (The title is Last Watch, not The Last Watch, whatever the goodreads icon says.) It would be fairly confusing to anyone who hadn't read Night Watch, Day Watch, and Twilight Watch. Even though I've read and enjoyed the whole series, I had a little trouble remembering who was who among the minor characters; details of what happened in the earlier books, often mentioned in this one, were also a bit fuzzy. Still, I enjoyed this a lot. The p...more
I had an interesting discussion about this book with one of my coworkers, who read it in it's original Russian form. He felt that the first two books were great, but that it went downhill when the power levels of the Leads (Anton, Sveta, etc) went up to high. I didn't have an issue with this type of escalation, as it tends to happen in Fantasy series in general, but I would agree that there may not be much further to take any of these characters. That's sad, in a way, because his world of two ba...more
I think I've said this before but might as well say it again. I love this series. Absolutely. The writing style, the characters, the universe created is so vivid and alive. I had been putting off reading this installment, sad because it's the last book. Although I do hold out hope, like many fans, that there will be more to come.
I sadly, saw the movies before reading the books, but I still feel that both (the movies and the books) are very well written in their own right, and even though they v...more
I sadly, saw the movies before reading the books, but I still feel that both (the movies and the books) are very well written in their own right, and even though they v...more
This novel is a continuation of the previous novels Night Watch, Day Watch and Twilight Watch and once again sees Anton, Light Ones, Dark Ones and the unaffiliated immersed in the worth of the Others. Given its deep connection and interconnectedness with the previous novels, one should (and arguably must) read the previous novels to make sense of this novel and to fully appreciate the work in within this world.
As with the other novels, the book structurally contains three interlinked novellas. U...more
As with the other novels, the book structurally contains three interlinked novellas. U...more
Yes. Lukyanenko does it again! I loved this book, like all the others for that matter. It delivered what it promised, both in form and content, though sometimes it was just a tiny, tiny bit predictable; nonetheless, I was gripped.
I missed the old quarrel between Zabulon and Geiser, I really love those two, especially Zabulon, he can be so much fun! And Anton, he changed, I know, that's how it's supposed to be, but he was younger and funnier and he did those mistakes that made him a very attract...more
I missed the old quarrel between Zabulon and Geiser, I really love those two, especially Zabulon, he can be so much fun! And Anton, he changed, I know, that's how it's supposed to be, but he was younger and funnier and he did those mistakes that made him a very attract...more
It should come as no surprise that I loved this book. My reviews of the previous three books in the series were glowing, and I found this book to be quite outstanding in the series. Since the end of the Harry Potter series of books, I have been looking for the next series that I would obsess about. While there have been a few others (like the Hunger Games series), not one of them captured my imagination like the Night Watch series. The entire series has been compelling! (I supposed there is no s...more
The final book in the blockbuster Watch series. This book was a nice ending to the series, pulling in characters from all of the other books. Some of Lukyanenko's strengths include: creating good adventure and suspense, creating a intriguing puzzle to be solved, and writing an ending that I had to read more than once to wrap my head around - not in bad way, he just thinks of such great explanations that I have to really think about how he's wrapped everything up. I always walk away from these bo...more
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Каквото и да си говорим, за мен поне само в “Патрулите” Сергей Лукяненко се отпуска и наистина се наслаждава на писането (към тях бих добавил и “Чернова”, както и очакваното й скоро продължение “Белова”, които същностно не се различават особено от патрулната серия като светоизграждане и лек стил). Умишлено се опазих да не отнеса всички книги от серията наред – още след изчитането на “Нощен патрул” имах желан...more
Каквото и да си говорим, за мен поне само в “Патрулите” Сергей Лукяненко се отпуска и наистина се наслаждава на писането (към тях бих добавил и “Чернова”, както и очакваното й скоро продължение “Белова”, които същностно не се различават особено от патрулната серия като светоизграждане и лек стил). Умишлено се опазих да не отнеса всички книги от серията наред – още след изчитането на “Нощен патрул” имах желан...more
There are many things that set this particular book apart from the rest of the series and just about as many things that make this the most important book in the set.
In essence, what is completed here is the full description of the world where these characters live. There are no more revelations to be made (well ... there are no questions left regarding the world) after the final pages. This is all there is. Which casts the entire series in a completely different light. What was once just a nor...more
In essence, what is completed here is the full description of the world where these characters live. There are no more revelations to be made (well ... there are no questions left regarding the world) after the final pages. This is all there is. Which casts the entire series in a completely different light. What was once just a nor...more
Este é o quarto volume da tetralogia da Night Watch Saga. Após o sucesso dos dois primeiros livros Serguei Lukianenko lança duas sequelas com alguns anos de diferença.
Espremer a galinha dos ovos de ouro? Estragar uma boa saga lançando livros a mais?
É um receio natural já que em tantas sagas a qualidade dos livros vai decrescendo. Neste caso, no entanto, estamos perante uma excepção a regra. The Last Watch, não é melhor nem pior que os seus antecessores. Poderia até soar chato por ser mais do me...more
Espremer a galinha dos ovos de ouro? Estragar uma boa saga lançando livros a mais?
É um receio natural já que em tantas sagas a qualidade dos livros vai decrescendo. Neste caso, no entanto, estamos perante uma excepção a regra. The Last Watch, não é melhor nem pior que os seus antecessores. Poderia até soar chato por ser mais do me...more
I was really looking forward to the next installment in the series. There were some differences though, mainly in the language, it seemed quite a bit more crude than previously. I am not sure whether its the author or the translator though.
Also, I thought there was an unnecessary amount of Pop culture references. Maybe the author is trying to show the West that Russians is don't live under a log in the forest and are abreast of what is happening in the world. It came across as a bit cheesy. Tho...more
Also, I thought there was an unnecessary amount of Pop culture references. Maybe the author is trying to show the West that Russians is don't live under a log in the forest and are abreast of what is happening in the world. It came across as a bit cheesy. Tho...more
For the first time in a long while I remembered what it felt like to not want a book to end.
In the fourth installment of the watch series Higher magician Anton Gorodetsky is assigned to what seems to be a fairly simple case of a vampire attack in Edinburgh. Of course, as things always seem to go for Anton, the case has multiple layers and turns out to be a hunt for a secret artifact that has unknown consequences for all Others and for humanity.
With each book in the series I have enjoyed them m...more
In the fourth installment of the watch series Higher magician Anton Gorodetsky is assigned to what seems to be a fairly simple case of a vampire attack in Edinburgh. Of course, as things always seem to go for Anton, the case has multiple layers and turns out to be a hunt for a secret artifact that has unknown consequences for all Others and for humanity.
With each book in the series I have enjoyed them m...more
The last and by far most ordinary volume of this series. The first and second novels in the series were poetic, full of invention, and frankly sort of hard to follow plotwise. The third and fourth volumes are able to assume a lot of the details and characters, and therefore add a supernatural mystery plot in which the Light and the Dark are not necessarily battling each other any more.
This volume is probably the least dark and most humorous of the four, oddly enough -- perhaps because there are...more
This volume is probably the least dark and most humorous of the four, oddly enough -- perhaps because there are...more
Excellent story telling, and a great translation from the Russian original. Fourth and final book in the Watch series. There are two movies that go with this series, available via Amazon Unbox Video-on-Demand and on DVD - the movies, Night Watch, and Day Watch.
The Watch series details the life of The Others, on the Asian continent and in Europe. The Others are a species of humanity having developed supernatural traits to such an extent that they can absorb themselves into "The Gloom" (as it's c...more
The Watch series details the life of The Others, on the Asian continent and in Europe. The Others are a species of humanity having developed supernatural traits to such an extent that they can absorb themselves into "The Gloom" (as it's c...more
THE NIGHT WATCH SERIES
I love this series so much and the movie was so damn fun! The movies gave justice to the book and I can even say they made it so much better. I hope all the movies and books by this writer will progress forever. Can't wait for a new one! I so love this series. I saved all my money just to buy this series and it was so worth it. In fact I do not even like buying books in a series but this made me so happy that i just wanted more. I hope though that the series will end with L...more
I love this series so much and the movie was so damn fun! The movies gave justice to the book and I can even say they made it so much better. I hope all the movies and books by this writer will progress forever. Can't wait for a new one! I so love this series. I saved all my money just to buy this series and it was so worth it. In fact I do not even like buying books in a series but this made me so happy that i just wanted more. I hope though that the series will end with L...more
I really love the Watch series. The Last Watch has a different feel to it thought, that separates it from the first three. I felt that Sergei was no longer 'in the zone' when writing this novel and perhaps he was pressured to write another by the publisher. At times, the plot seemed too twee and forced. The Edinbugh scenes are a little twee but not too distracting. The characters still hold true though which is great! My favourite is Zabulon - he is so cooly logical and you can't really argue wi...more
i enjoyed this one as well. the intrigue and the plots that swirl around are fun. a bit predictable, but thoroughly fun and well written. i found the ending to be a bit anticlimactic for all the build up, especially concerning the daughter, but given how hollywood and movies have turned entertainment into something that must be HUGE and EXPLOSIVE every time, maybe my feelings should be credited to over-sensationalizing things instead of appreciating them as they are, heh.
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Sergei Lukyanenko (as his name appears on books and films in U.S. markets) is a science-fiction and fantasy author, writing in Russian, and is arguably the most popular contemporary Russian sci-fi writer. His works often feature intense action-packed plots, interwoven with t...more
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Sergei Lukjanenko
Sergei Lukyanenko (as his name appears on books and films in U.S. markets) is a science-fiction and fantasy author, writing in Russian, and is arguably the most popular contemporary Russian sci-fi writer. His works often feature intense action-packed plots, interwoven with t...more
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