New Watch: Book Five (Night Watch)
Originally published in Russia in 2012, this is the fifth and concluding volume of the Night Watch series, in which two groups of supernatural beings, the Night Watch and the Day Watch, protect the boundary between this world and the Twilight, a magical world beneath our own. When Anton Gorodetsky, a Light magician (and the series’ nominal protagonist), chances upon a young boy petrified to get on a plane, convinced it will crash, he wonders if he’s witness to something that could signal the very end of the Twilight itself. Readers unfamiliar with the preceding four books in the series can expect to play a game of catch-up here; familiarity with the earlier volumes is a necessity. Those who have been following the story since its beginning, on the other hand, will find this a satisfying and fitting wrap-up. It should be noted that, even though the Night Watch series has always been presented as a pentalogy, the author does leave room for at least one more book. --David Pitt