The Night Watch

This modern day mythical fantasy is Anne Rice on an epic scale, a hugely imagined world ... a chiller thriller from cold of Russia, this one's been selling like hot cakes around the world

Sunday Sport

So good that the film feels like a trailer for it

Time Out

JK Rowling, Russian style ... arguably Russia's richest and most famous literary talent of the moment ... [a] cracking read, owing more to Rowling or Philip Pullman than it does to the horror genre ... surprisingly readable and addictive...it relies on suspense and psychological drama and a good dose of humour - rather than blood and guts

Daily Telegraph

When a particular kind of story, heavily based in one culture, gets transferred into a culture distinctly different, something magical happens ... Something modern, new and distinctly creepy ... continues to work because the magic is rooted in the realities of modern Russia ... Inventive, sardonic, and imbued with a surprising the sense that, for this author and his audience, much of this stuff is new-minted

Independent

Night Watch is an epic of extraordinary power

Quentin Tarantino

Star Wars meets the Vampires in Moscow . . . it bursts with a sick, carnivorous glee in its fiendish games

The New York Times

[A] sceptical, intelligent thriller

The Telegraph

Fascinating . . . [The] excellent translation by Andrew Bromfield keeps the pace moving . . . One of the most original and readable supernatural fictions in some time

Scotland on Sunday

Brace yourself for Harry Potter in Gorky Park . . . The novel contains some captivating scenes and all kinds of marvelous, inventive detail: The vampires' seduction of a teenage boy is bone-chilling; every time Lukyanenko described the Other-worldly Twilight, I felt lured into it; and the fantastical powers exercised by Anton and his colleagues range from delightful to awesome

Ron Charles, The Washington Post Book World

Lukyanenko is great at rolling out new concepts for the reader to savour

The Sydney Morning Herald

[As] potent as a shot of vodka . . . [A] compelling urban fantasy

Publishers Weekly

This modern day mythical fantasy is Anne Rice on an epic scale, a hugely imagined world. A chiller thriller from cold of Russia, this one's been selling like hot cakes around the world

Sunday Sport