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Lisha Naidu lishanaidu — Remaining within the world previously described within the pages of Night Watch, we change perspectives to focus on other characters, to flesh out the world. This book is again divided into three acts, which are a bit more closely tied together. I was looking forward to hearing the Day watch's side of the story, as Anton is fairly balanced in his perspective, but ultimately prone to the kind of more-enlightened-than-thou attitude that I suspect is common amongst the Night watch. Act one focuses on Alisa Donnikova, a Dark one and returning character from the first book. In the crossfire of a botched confrontation between the watches, she finds herself drained of power. Retreating to equivalent of a boy and girl scouts camp to recover, she falls in love with Igor, another councilor who turns out to be recovering Light one from the same botched confrontation. Love is a difficult thing, made more so by their opposing allegiances, and the story ends with the results of their final confrontation uncertain. Act Two shifts focus to a very confused man named Vitaliy Ragoza. He travels to Moscow, encounters most of the Nightwatchmen we remember from the first book, and seems to experience a rapid increase in his capabilities as an Other. In the background to this story, we find out about some rogue Daywatch members who have stolen a powerful artifact. The Inquisition is falled in, and the story concludes with Vitaliy confrontations with Anton and his lover Svetlana. Act Three is told in the third person, and shows us the third party to the treaty, the Inquisition. They exist as an ultimate check on the powers of the Nightwatch and Daywatch. This story wraps up most of the dangling bits from the prior stories, with Daywatch schemes finally coming to the light (aha), though it leaves the door open very obviously to continuation of the series. A somewhat weaker book, I enjoyed it as connective tissue between the stories. Upon examination of the overall series these stories are vital for a variety of reasons, but I had mixed feelings. The first story is wonderfully character driven, it draws you in makes you sympathize and then hits you hard with its emotional punch. The other two stories were much more plot driven, and I found myself much less interested in who was throwing fireballs at whom. So far my impression is that Sergei's weakest act is always the second.

Ruan Oliveira ruan0b7f — 98 pages in and I'm bored. I think I'm gonna call it a day and say I read it.

José Miguel jmbaena13 — Apparently, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle published nine volumes of Sherlock Holmes mysteries during the course of his lifetime. Four novels and fifty-six short stories in five collections. Over 1,300 pages. And after reading all of them, I can positively state that at no point does Sherlock Holmes ever actually say, “Elementary, my dear Watson.” But that didn’t spoil the book for me. I’d been imagining Sherlock Holmes mysteries to be at once cornball and arcane, a cross between Clue and The Once and Future King: —“Colonel Mustard in the atrium with a candlestick, declaiming, ‘It was Court Hand and Summulae Logicales!’” But actually I’d say they’re more like the cocaine in which Holmes himself occasionally indulges. (Who knew?) I couldn’t quit turning pages; as soon as I finished one story, I was on to the next one. With titles like “The Crooked Man” and “The Red-Headed League,” who could resist? And although according to pop culture, Holmes is a genius and Watson a bumbling idiot, their real characters are more complicated than that and the interplay between them fun fun fun to read. Footnote: When I first read the preface, “In Memoriam Sherlock Holmes,” by Christopher Morley, I thought it was asinine—like something a fan club president would put at the top of his monthly newsletter. However, about a third of my way into the book, I began consulting it for information on Doyle, his works, and his life; and by the time I got halfway through, I thought it was the most useful, spot-on introduction I’d read, possibly ever. I wish all books had such prefaces.

Ana Veiga aninhas101 — Out of all of the books I have currently read about medical school and residency, this one was by far the most depressing account. For four years, this man details his experience in medical school and its utter lack of redeeming qualities. Bright moments and successes are always overshadowed by diatribes on what is wrong with medical education in this country. In the end, the author chooses not to continue on into residency, citing multiple reasons as to why he is doing a greater service to public health by NOT becoming a doctor. A flop.

Madison Hanlon maddie_han0fa4 — Frank loved this.... It is just an Aesop's Fable retold, but at the end it has three fun little activies, like find what's different between two pictures, and match the picture with a description.