Book: Devil’s Kiss by Sarwat Chadda
Rating: 5 Stars
Release date: September 1, 2009 from Hyperion
Summary: Bilquis SanGreal grew up knowing she would have to make sacrifices to be in the Knights Templar. Sacrifices like losing her mother to the Templar’s ongoing battle against the Unholy; sacrifices like trading her childhood in for relentless training; sacrifices that keep her completely isolated from the world of a normal teen girl.
Billi’s lone wolf status is challenged when her childhood friend, Kay, returns from his psychic training in Jerusalem. Kay manages to stir things up quickly — he’s gorgeous, arrogant, and wants to slide right back into his old place in Billi’s life. Billi is skeptical, but interested, until she meets Michael — an ethereally handsome guy who seems to understand her like no one before him, and effortlessly stakes a claim in her heart.
Just as Billi’s starting to enjoy this pleasant new twist to her life, Kay ruins everything. In a moment of bravado, Kay uses the last of the Templar’s treasures, King Solomon’s cursed mirror, drawing the attention of one of the most dangerous of the Templars’ enemies — The Angel of Death.
Only with the mirror can the dark angel unleash his full powers, and now that he’s heard the call of the mirror, he’ll stop at nothing to get it. To save London from catastrophe, Billi will have to make sacrifices greater than she’d ever imagined.
The main character, Billi, has a hard life. Instead of being like a normal teenage girl she is part of a secret society called the Knights Templar. She spends her nights fighting the Unholy and learning everything they don’t teach you in school. Her life is pretty complicated and it gets even more complicated when her childhood friend, Kay, returns home as if nothing changed. In the year that he was gone, Billi changed more than he could ever know.
Billi was a very complex character. She had problems at school, home, and everywhere else she went. She knew she could never be normal and she hated it. Then there was Kay who seemed to complicate everything. She wants to be able to hate him but she just can’t. Then along comes Michael who is just creates a huge mess for everyone and causes tons of destruction for Billi, Kay, and the rest of the Knights.
The whole story just dragged me in. It was just so unique and while it did have some religion in it, it wasn’t the preachy type and it all had to do with the story. I normally don’t like religion in the books I read but I felt that this was entirely necessary and didn’t detract from the story.
Overall, The Devil’s Kiss was a great book and something that I would recommend to any lover of paranormal fiction. I know there is going to be a sequel to it and I can’t wait. =]
Great review! I really want to read this, the plot looks awesome(:
I really liked the cover of this book, but I really had no insight on what it was like, but now I know it is really awesome, great review!!!
wow I am loving the month of october for all the halloweeny style books that come out of the corners – this looks great. good review!
Aimee
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