Night Watch

This Russian bestseller was very interesting. At times I wondered if some elements were lost in translation because I felt that the premise of the world wasn't explained fully.

The book is basically about the dichotomy between good and evil. The Night Watch lives in the night policing the Dark magicians and the Day watch spends the day policing the Light magicians. Darkness and light have created a truce. If there is too much of good or evil, there will be an unbalance in the world. This makes a difficult task for the Night Watch because the Day Watch is devious and will sacrifice the "unimportant" of the dark ones so that they can accuse the Night Watch of eliminating them. The Day Watch do this so they can get their "retaliation" to even out the scales.

Quite complicated, but quite interesting.