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The Day Watch (The Night Watch Trilogy book 2) by Sergei Lukyanenko
01/06/2007 . Source: Sue Davies 
pub: William Heinemann/Random House. 487 page enlarged paperback. Price: £11.99 (UK). ISBN: 978-0-434-01443-9. Buy The Day Watch in the USA - or Buy The Day Watch in the UK  check out website: www.randomhouse.co.uk
Part two of the Lukyanenko trilogy is another triptych of stories that criss-cross the world of the Day and Night Watch. Those guardians of humanity have great powers, experience dramatic falls from grace or anti-grace and all for a humanity they can barely bring themselves to respect let alone love or cherish.
Alice features in the opening story. A powerful witch, she is involved with an operation that reduces her powers and sent to convalescence at a holiday camp for children. She uses their feelings to build her strength and is taken aback by feelings of love for a fellow counsellor, unaware that she is a part of a grander plan. The leader of the Day Watch, Zabulon, has to think in the long term, even though Alice is his former lover, and he is quite prepared to sacrifice whatever he needs to get one over on the Night Watch.
Each subsequent story fits into overall arc of the trilogy within the trilogy. It's a sharply observed set of tales. Each one makes you reflect on morality, self-knowledge and how our vision of the world is governed by our society.
It is easy to draw parallels between the cold war thrillers and these new knowing stories emerging from the former Soviet Union. In this twilight world, deals are made, hostages taken and the world order decided. The checks and balances forced on the armies of Dark and Light blur the lines between what is good and evil.
I am looking forward to Part Three and the conclusion of the Trilogy
Sue Davies
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