There were bits that were not so good, mostly in the beginning when the character went to school, but the good parts were so good, and the climax so killer, that in the end, I had to give this book a high rating. It's a dark, merciless coming-of-age story, full of love and hate and immaturity, and -- at the very end -- agonizing sacrifice. Go and be devoured by it, just as I was.

If I were to liken books to pools with the best books being deep, cool springs and the worst books being oil slicks, The Devil's Kiss would be ankle deep and lukewarm. I enjoyed splashing about, but there was nothing particularly memorable about it.

I read this book all the way through, and with relative ease. At no point did I want to put it down. But here I am two days later, and when I try to remember what happens, I only get a hazy image of some knights templar and a few death angels.

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I'm a fan of a great beginning and I give this book 3.5 stars because it has one of the best beginnings I've read. The first chapter opens with action done well, and I found myself caring about Billi and curious about her life right away. It's well-written, action-packed, and the Templar angle adds a freshness to the story. As a warrior, Billi San Greal is kick ass, and I thought her fighting and action scenes were great. It was easy to become completely immersed in them.

However, I had difficult More...

With all the renewed interest in grail lore, who wouldn't be intrigued by an account modern day Knights Templar with a tough as nails teen girl as a member? That was probably the thought process when Disney Hyperion pushed this title forward with a flashy cover to go with the concept. Unfortunately, the numerous inconsistencies in the writing and a few sticky coincidences disrupt what started out as an intriguing premise. Billi SanGreal (um, yeah, was anyone else expecting her to be descended of More...

Devil's Kiss was a lucky library find for me. I brought it home out of desperation and put off reading it for weeks because I was sure I wouldn't like it. Surprise! It's a good book. The plot starts right away with fifteen-year-old Billi SanGreal's induction into the Knights Templar: she must dispatch an undead creature in the guise of a six-year-old boy with her stern and exacting father, Arthur, looking on. From there, the story might sputter a bit, but where it runs well its a smooth ride.

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La couverture est absolument magnifique, si on regarde de près on peut voir des gouttes de sang. Très bonne idée je trouve. Il faut avoir lu le livre en entier pour comprendre le sens de cette couverture, par exemple on ne sait pas qui sont les deux jeunes gens au milieu. Sans trop de difficulté on pense que la fille est Billie mais le garçon… Dans la première partie du livre j’ai pensé que c’était L’ange de la Mort mais plus les pages tournent plus mon doute s’est installé… Et à la fin on décou More...

I don’t know why it took me so long to pick this book up again. I had left it at around 8th chapter where I got a hint of how predictable it was going to be and then real life intervened and since then I had been putting it off.

I finally finished it in one sitting. I must say that the female protagonist Billi, who is only a 15-year old girl and a “going-to-be” Templar, who are people that protect the world from evil, was quite brave. She felt real, she had her issues but when time called for it, More...

I wasn't sure what to expect when I picked up Devil's Kiss. I'd heard widely varied reviews, but I was intrigued nonetheless. I've always loved fantastical stories that are rooted in truth and I was even more intrigued by the fact that the main character was female.

Devil's Kiss pulled me in right from the beginning. While I had a pretty good idea of who the villain would be, it wasn't definite, the story could have progressed in a couple different ways. I liked that it wasn't completely obvious. More...

Billi SanGreal is the only female Templar and not everyone in the Order agrees that she should be there. After her mother was murdered years ago, she's been training day and night by the express orders of her father. However, there are times that she'd like to just be a normal girl, having things like best friends and a boyfriend. When her childhood friend, Kay, comes back from his training in Jerusalem to control his mental powers, Billi pushes him away because she felt abandoned. When she meet More...

My Review:
This book includes a fifteen year old girl, Bilquis SanGreal or Billi for short.. When her mother was murdered right before her eyes by a strange creature when she was five... Billi blames herself for not being able to save her mom. Her father Arthur then comes into the picture, and raises her on his own.... But her father hid the truth of what really happen to her mother, and and the truth of what she, her father, and his friends truly are... So when she discovers the truth, that he More...

I love books that are filled with action!! A little romance stuck in the middle is great (Duh, I’m a girl) But the epic fighting scene are what keep me reading. Give me grade A crises situations, give me kung-fu and flying daggers, give me a 15 year old girl with an attitude and a fondness for shiny swords, and I am 1 very happy girl.

I have read an ungodly amount of literature focused on demons and the undead, but I had never (until now of course) read anything that focused on the Knights Templa More...

A quinze ans seulement, Billi est la plus jeune des chevaliers de l'Ordre du Temple. Elle doit ce privilège à son papa, Arthur SanGreal, mais a sacrifié l'insouciance de sa jeunesse. Car en fait, tout ce qu'elle rêverait d'avoir, c'est une existence ordinaire, aller au lycée, sortir entre filles et avoir un petit copain, en gros ne plus laisser son père dicter sa vie !
Le sort en a décidé autrement, et Billi doit prendre les armes, se battre contre les forces du mal et protéger l'humanité en jou More...

Life hasn't been easy for Bilquis "Billy" SanGreal. Her father Arthur is the Master of the Order of Templar. Founded in the Middle Ages to protect nights on their way to the crusades, the Knights Templar have now taken up the fight against the unholy, battling werewolves, ghuls, and fallen angels. When Billi was five, her mother Jamila died protecting her from a Ghul attack.

Ten years later, Billi is about the be initiated into the order herself, the first woman ever to become a member (and possi More...

The protagonist of Devil's Kiss, Bilqis SanGreal, or Billi, wants to live a normal life, just like a usual teenager- shopping, hanging out, dating; however she doesn't have a choice. She has been chosen as the youngest and the only female member of the Knights Templar. As much as she refuses being one, she has to train herself as a Warrior in their war against the Unholy - vampires, werewolves, watchers and all other evil spirits.

Kay, her childhood friend and now an Oracle for the Templar, retur More...

Okay... be prepared... I read some weird books and this is one of them.
So all in all this book was alright. I always like a really intense story. This definitely was. (So this is where it gets weird)... The main character Billi (a female by the way) is part of this order that fights evil. They have no magical powers or anything so they have to battle these mythical creatures through pure hard work and talent. And, boy, do they got skillz. (That's right. Skills with a 'z'. That's how hard core t More...

2.5
I did not really feel any of the characters. I did not much care about them. The only interesting relationship was between the heroine and her father and that got resolved in an unsatisfactory way, for me. Too easy.

The vilain was not that scary. He had a lot of promise but it kind of fizzled out. The action felt very removed from the present, from the outside world - at the begining there's mention of Billi going to school but later on it feels like there is nothing but the Templars, Templars More...

Reviewed by Christin for Between the Covers

When I first stumbled upon the Billi SanGreal novels, my thoughts were - "Templar lore? Strong heroine? A little romance thrown in? Yes, please!" And Devil's Kiss did not disappoint.

Billi has been raised to be a fighter for the Knights Templar - she has been trained, tested, and accepted. But it is a hard life, and even when her one and only friend returns from his time away in training, Billi is still longing for a meaningful relationship. Enter Michae More...

This book opens with a bang. The first line...

Killing him should be easy; He's only six.

To die for (pun intended)! Loved it! Then it rolls right into a great action sequence.The pace stays fast. Chadda's characterization, description and plot development is very good. I enjoyed the history/folklore of the Knights Templar. There was enough to be interesting and move the story along without bogging it down. I thought the endless description of their vast array of weapons got a bit tedious but that More...

Devil's Kiss by Sarwat Chadda follows Billi the youngest and only female member of the Knights Templar. The Knights Templar protect the human world from evil soulless creatures that roam the earth. Billi is a tough girl who has lived a tough life with a father who cares more for the Templar's than for her. She finds herself fighting a war against the dark Angels who wish to bring a plague back to earth.

I had mixed feelings about this book, there were portions that were brilliant and the fight sc More...

I like it. A lot. The thing I like most about it, apart from well-developed plot and a smart (in so many ways!) heroine, is the work that went into creating the world in which Billi lives. As an academic, I can truly appreciate the amount of research that went into creating his universe. It is hard to not be impressed by an author who only makes up what he has to. He uses what is already out there in the world to his advantage. Why start from scratch if it is not necessary?

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Billi SanGreal wants to be normal, not some soilder of a long but forgotten society of warriors. She just wants to have friends, go to the movies or maybe even have a boyfriend. But no she just happens to be the youngest member of the world's most famous society the Knights Templar. But the Knight's Templar is not what it once was. It was the most respected and feared and not just a shell of what it once was. From numbers at one time being in the thousands are now down to 9. 9 people to defend h More...

3.5 stars
This book took me a couple tries to get into since I think I just wasn't in the right frame of mind the first few times I tried to read it. Once I did get into it it was a mesmerizing story and although I never truly liked Billi, I appreciated the complex character she was. She's grown up being trained to become a warrior despite wishing to live a life of a normal teenage girl. Her mother died when she was only 5 and her father is a total ass to her. She's an outcast in school and her g More...

The Vinaya Monologues

Vinaya: So, I'm not sure what to think of The Devil's Kiss
Vinaya's : Not much to think about, love, it wasn't some profound oeuvre.

Vinaya's : But it was interesting in parts.

V's little devil: *snorts* "In parts" ain't good enough for me!

V's angel: "In parts" is better than the unmitigated boredom of books like Hush, Hush and Fallen. Huh, those fallen angels aren't very interesting, are they? *preens*

V's devil: More interesting than those losers who couldn't stop preach More...

Exorcizo te, omnis spriritus immunde, in nomine Dei patris omnipotentis
Ego to linio oleo salutis in Christo jesu Domino nostro, ut habeas vitam aeternam

Aku ingin kau membunuh ayahmu!

Sepintas Billi terlihat seperti seorang anak remaja berusia 15 tahun lainnya. Namun jika diperhatikan dengan seksama, sekujur tubuhnya penuh dengan bekas luka. Alih-alih menghafal bait-bait lagu dari penyanyi idola, ia malah harus hafal doa mengusir setan. Belum lagi ia harus menghadapi tatapan aneh seluruh isi sekol More...

Sarwat's book hasn't gotten too much press outside the UK. I have no friggin' idea why though, because it is awesome. This was, seriously, some fantastic YA urban fantasy that I think would easily appeal to adults. Sure, Billi is only 15 - but she has had to grow up really fast and it has made her more mature than some of the adult characters I read! (*cough* Faythe *cough*)

Billi is fighting the good-fight against the demonic forces - and it comes with casualties. There are angels, vampires, wol More...

Sarwat Chadda’s first book in the ‘Devil’s Kiss’ series is a revelation!
Truly, I have slogged through some God-awful (pardon the pun) books about angels. Becca Fitzpatrick’s ‘Hush, Hush’ and JR Ward’s ‘Covet’ almost ruined the entire angel-theme for me. But Chadda’s novel has managed to change my thinking entirely!

Billi SanGreal is a member of the Knights Templar. Once known and revered as the ‘Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon’, this religious order now resides in Lond More...

I was looking forward to reading this book. I'd recieved the sequel, Dark Goddess, for review and although I'd been assured it wasn't necessary to read Devil's Kiss, I decided to anyway as everyone seemed to think very highly of it. Unfortunatly I was disappointed and found Devils Kiss a bit of a struggle.

The book starts very well. Billi is confronting a demon who has possessed a six year old child. Torn between wanting to protect the little boy and knowing she would have to destroy him, I found More...