Like they're gonna read it. lol I can fully predict some will read it just to fuel their fannish bile. Much like some people watch TV or Films just to be offended. Are there elves? No Elves. In essence the Watch books are about the balance of power between the light and the dark and the respective groups that observe and maintain that balance. I can't quite think of anything like them. At a stretch it could be a bit like Torchwood, but mythology and magic based, and a lot less technology. Except there are two groups to follow. The forces of the light who monitor and police the Dark Others, and vice versa. The tone is definitely torchwoodesque but with a distinct eastern block feel and in my minds eye everything is in muted tones. Contemporary Russia providing an excellent and alien backdrop for some confrontations. The form of the books is also intriguing, with each volume containing a number of separate cases, novellas almost, that carry a story arc to a logical conclusion. In some cases these will then carry threads over to the next book. The cover notes keep describing the author as a Russian J K Rowling. The only sense that I agree with this in is that they are incredibly hard to put down and have resulted in nights where I should have put down the book and got some sleep but instead decided to read more. If you fancy a recommendation for 2009, check out one of the books and see if it tickles your fancy. The starting point is Night Watch, and the author is Sergei Lukyanenko. I feel it my duty to enthuse about them in the hope someone else picks them up and reads them. And really, SF/Fantasy books are not something I enthuse about often.
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Date: 2009-01-02 08:25 am (UTC)I can fully predict some will read it just to fuel their fannish bile. Much like some people watch TV or Films just to be offended.
Are there elves?
No Elves. In essence the Watch books are about the balance of power between the light and the dark and the respective groups that observe and maintain that balance. I can't quite think of anything like them. At a stretch it could be a bit like Torchwood, but mythology and magic based, and a lot less technology. Except there are two groups to follow. The forces of the light who monitor and police the Dark Others, and vice versa. The tone is definitely torchwoodesque but with a distinct eastern block feel and in my minds eye everything is in muted tones. Contemporary Russia providing an excellent and alien backdrop for some confrontations. The form of the books is also intriguing, with each volume containing a number of separate cases, novellas almost, that carry a story arc to a logical conclusion. In some cases these will then carry threads over to the next book. The cover notes keep describing the author as a Russian J K Rowling. The only sense that I agree with this in is that they are incredibly hard to put down and have resulted in nights where I should have put down the book and got some sleep but instead decided to read more.
If you fancy a recommendation for 2009, check out one of the books and see if it tickles your fancy. The starting point is Night Watch, and the author is Sergei Lukyanenko. I feel it my duty to enthuse about them in the hope someone else picks them up and reads them. And really, SF/Fantasy books are not something I enthuse about often.