What I said earlier about reading books I know I’ll enjoy? Well, it pains me to say this but I was disappointed with this book. For example, the features of a vampire who appears as a normal human in our world starts to change in the Twilight to look more cadaverous with exaggeratedly long teeth. Things appear different in that realm, and the deeper down one goes, the more ‘true’ the form of the person or even an inanimate object becomes. Our world is the middle one the upper words are usually the realms of the good spirits, while the lower worlds often contain evil spirits.īut, in the Twilight, the different levels are in a downward direction, and each subsequent level is that much more difficult to access, with a danger of getting stuck in a level if the Other is too weak, magically or physically, to travel back up and step out of the Twilight. It reminds me of a Siberian belief that traditionally believed in several worlds, usually 3,5 or 7, stacked one on top of the other. I love the way they access the Twilight – they literally call up their shadow and step into the Twilight simple yet effective. The Others who die disappear into the Twilight. The Twilight is a realm that exists parallel to the one we inhabit, which basically feeds off happiness and grief, and is one only the Others have access to.
I’m going to borrow my own explanation from my previous review. I guess now would be a good time to explain what the Twilight is, which is one of my favourite things about the series. After the fourth book, which took us deep into the Twilight, I was intrigued as to what the author had in store for the Others, and what could possibly threaten the Twilight. I was drawn in straightaway, same as with the other ‘Watch’ books, and I was looking forward to meeting up with ‘old friends’.
It took me long enough to pick this up to read, not because I didn’t want to, but because of my usual dilemma of delaying reading books I know I will enjoy. Gorodetsky travels from London to Taiwan and across Russia in search of clues, however he soon realises that the existence of the Twilight itself is at stake – and that only he will be able to save it.’ But now comes a peril that threatens their very world…Īfter discovering a child prophet who can foretell the future, Higher Light Magician Anton Gorodetsky senses a disruption in the natural order, one that is confirmed by the arrival of a dark and terrifying predator. Each has sworn allegiance to one side, either the Light or the Darkness. ‘ Walking the streets of our cities are the Others: men and women who have access to the Twilight, a shadowy parallel world that exists alongside our own. Having thought the series had finished with the fourth one, I was really excited to discover there were at least 2 more books! I’ve loved Sergei Lukyanenko’s ‘Watch’ series since the first book, ‘ Night Watch’.
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