This book came as a recommendation from a close friend and in the shop I was debating between buying this one and another. I have to say that I'm glad that this one won out! It's translated from Russian, of course, and I think that most of the many song lyrics (and there were more than I was comfortable with) lost their meaning in the translation. 
 The story itself was original and I found myself easily drawn into it each time I picked the book up again. Agents of the light and the dark have to keep the peace by keeping an eye on each other and stopping their foes, be they vampires, sorcerers, or whatever, from influencing the everyday citizens of Moscow. 
 I enjoyed the protagonist's narration, though I didn't really understand what the hell was going on at the end of the book. Moscow not long after the end of the communist influence made for a very different setting, with the matchbox apartment buildings. I enjoyed the way that the author showed West beginning to seep into East.