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Dark Goddess (2010)

par Sarwat Chadda

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Séries: Devil's Kiss (2)

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Billi SanGreal, a teenaged member of the Knights Templar, must prevent a young girl, who is being hunted by werewolves because of the dangerous powers she possesses, from falling into the hands of the ancient Russian witch, Baba Yaga.
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It lacks the philosophical elements of Devil’s Kiss. Action just for action’s sake. ( )
  2wonderY | Feb 3, 2024 |
The first half of this book was unbelievably boring. I almost dnf'd, but the second half is an entirely different book. If the whole book was like the second half, I would have at least started from a place of "not my favorite, but really enjoyable." Once I hit the second half, the werewolves started to live up to their potential.

Also, if you're going to get this one, make sure it's a physical copy. The ebook I bought from Barnes and Noble was horrifically formatted in some places--mostly words without spaces, but to the point where it made some scenes difficult to read. And no, it wasn't just Baba Yaga's dialogue, which was actually kind of cool. There was a clear difference between her speech and the actual formatting errors. ( )
  whatsmacksaid | Jan 25, 2021 |
“Dark Kiss” è il secondo romanzo della pianificata trilogia urban fantasy YA Devil’s kiss/Billi SanGreal series, scritta dall’autore, amante della storia, Sarwat Chadda.

Pensavamo di non arrivare mai a leggere questo Dark Kiss a causa della possibile sospensione della trilogia, che era stata commissionata a Chadda, per via dei bassi profitti ottenuti con Devil’s Kiss, primo romanzo della trilogia. In Italia, invece, la Mondadori ha deciso di regalarci anche questo secondo volume, sempre autoconclusivo, tutto incentrato sulle epiche avventure della giovanissima Billi SanGreal, templare impavida e dall’anima ormai fredda e spietata.

Le avventure di Billi, in Dark Kiss, riprendono proprio dopo pochi mesi dalla morte dell’Oracolo, Kay, suo unico amico d’infanzia e compagno; morte causata e determinata fisicamente proprio dalla stessa Billi pur di fermare la nuova Decima Piaga (la morte di tutti i primogeniti). Questa era stata scatenata dall’Arcangelo Michele, con l’aiuto inconsapevole di Billi, aveva intenzione di riavvicinare l’uomo a Dio.

A seguito della morte di Kay, Billi si ritrova a combattere anima e corpo per i Templari, spegnendosi poco a poco ed abbracciando la filosofia di vita del padre Arthur dove, per sopravvivere, un Templare si vede costretto a bandire i sentimenti ed a vivere unicamente per la “causa”.

Sarà l’incontro/salvataggio di Billi con una piccola veggente, il nuovo possibile Oracolo, che spingerà la ragazza a dover prendere in esame il suo comportamento nonché a dover affrontare la morte di Kay che, tutt’ora, sembra lacerarle l’anima.

Vasilisa, il nuovo Oracolo, verrà rapita nuovamente da sotto il tetto dei Templari dai Licantropi e verrà portata in Russia dove l’intero battaglione dei guerrieri di Dio dovrà recarsi per salvarla ed evitare così che venga soggiogata da parte di un’antichissima strega, scatenando così di fatto la fine dell’umanità.

Billi si ritroverà ad una corsa contro il tempo per salvare l’Oracolo, se stessa ormai prossima a soccombere al morso di un licantropo, il suo compagno di avventure, il Principe Ivan, e l’intera umanità dall’avvento del Fimbulvetr (nella mitologia norrena, uno dei segni che annunceranno la venuta del Ragnarök, la fine del mondo. Letteralmente significa "terribile inverno", e consisterà appunto in un primo inverno che avrà la durata di ben tre anni).

Anche questa volta Sarwat Chadda ci ha dimostrato di essere un abilissimo scrittore, in grado di trasmettere attraverso un’avvincente romanzo YA urban fantasy, messaggi forti ed importanti come l’importanza della Fede, degli affetti, dell’ecologia e la forza dell’animo umano; il tutto, però, senza apparire al lettore invasivo, saccente o chiaramente intenzionato a indottrinare. Chadda scrive e trasmette i suoi messaggi con naturalezza e l’imparzialità che dovrebbe essere sempre parte integrante dell’essere scrittore.

In Dark Kiss il messaggio trasmesso è forte ed importante: la Terra sta morendo e non continuerà sempre a subire l’egoismo umano. Un giorno si ribellerà e, anche se non sarà attraverso la spietata ma creatura pagana Baba-jaga, in qualche modo arriverà a farci comprendere il messaggio con le buone o con le cattive. Che ci piaccia o meno.

Un altro aspetto molto importante nella scrittura di Chadda è la sua capacità di mescolare e amalgamare con grande naturalezza varie religioni, etnie e leggende diverse.

Nulla nei libri di Chadda è totalmente inventato, a partire da Baba-jaga, Chernobyl, ai Templari per arrivare agli stessi Romanov. Perfino i nomi dei personaggi (nonché alcuni personaggi stessi), vengono ripresi miti, leggende, parabole o anche semplici fiabe e, soprattutto, tutti sono perfettamente funzionali alla trama, reale e moderna, e al romanzo.

Un romanzo certamente da leggere e assolutamente consigliato per chi desidera una lettura accurata, fantastica e avvincente: impossibile non amare Billi, con tutto il suo caratteraccio. ( )
  Nasreen44 | Jun 8, 2017 |
Goodreads Synopsis: Still reeling from the death of her best friend, Kay, Billi's thrust back into action when the Templars are called to investigate werewolf activity. But these werewolves are like nothing Bilil's ever seen.

They call themselves the Polenitsy: man killers. The ancient warrior women of Eastern Europe, supposedly wiped out centuries ago. But now they've come out of hiding and are on the hunt for a Spring
Child � an Oracle powerful enough to blow the volcano at Yellowstone � and start a Fimbulwinter that will wipe out humankind for good.

The Templars follow the stolen Spring Child to Russia, and the only people there who can fight the supernatural are the Bogatyrs, longtime enemies of the Templars. To reclaim the Spring Child and save the world, Billi needs to earn the trust of Ivan Romanov, a young Russian soldier whose suspicious of people in general, and of Billi in particular.

My review: I've been looking for this book ever since I made my goodreads account. It's crazy, I was so in love with the first one and when I learned there was a second one, I looked everywhere for it. I couldn't find it anywhere until now, and I don't even know where I found it this time. This book was amazing. I remembered a lot of the first book, which doesn't always happen. This book was equally awesome. I was sucked in from the very first page, and I couldn't put it down until I was done. I absolutely loved it, and I really wish I read slower than I did, because I didn't want to stop reading it, and I didn't want it to end. You know that feeling? I'm sure you do. Anyways, Billi has another epic adventure, this time taking place it Russia, as well as England. The supernatural have planned an insane attack on the 'Spring Child', a nine year old girl named Vasilisa. She's an avatar, an insanely powerful psychic, who can sympathize with the earth, with nature. It's an amazing story, and you should definitely check out the first book if you haven't read it yet!

Thanks for reading, I'll just leave this link here.

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  radioactivebookworm | Feb 17, 2014 |
Let me just get this out of the way: OMG WTF YAY FTW!

Sarwat Chadda’s second book in the Billi SanGreal series is mind-blowingly epic. So epic in fact that I just want to download a list of praising adjectives from a thesaurus and just put all of those in a text and call that my review. Sarwat is a master at mixing lore and handing them to you in a mash up that will literally have you anticipating each sentence. Usually when I am inundated with a mash up of different lore I immediately dislike the book *cough*CharlaineHarris*cough* and am unable to enjoy the work.

In Dark Goddess Billi is faced with life after Kay’s death. She is in a depression and resents being forced into the life of the Templar. On a random patrol she is surprised by a Werewolf and saves a small child from being eaten and that is where the book takes off at a break neck pace to the finish and oh my what a finish.

In this book we have Billi starting a flirtation with a Romanov Prince, saving a Spring Child from the epic witch Baba Yaga and learning to become the Templar she wants to be. Sometimes books suffer from what we call the Sophomore Slump but Dark Goddess if anything improved the story of Billi and Chadda’s writing was tight. I am a visual reader and a motion picture plays in my head as I am reading and with Dark Goddess at no point did I have to stop and assign the movie playing in my head characteristics.

These books are so well written and fascinating that I know whenever I start one that I will be incapacitated until I can finish. I only hope there will be more in the Billi SanGreal series. I can’t press upon you enough to read these books. If there is one set I am going to be pushing this year it is this.

Billi SanGreal and her battle are important on so many fronts. Not often do we get a YA character that is not white, that the cover hasn’t been white washed, and more than that Billi is a beacon for feminism: she is strong and needs no one to survive. A true to life self rescuing princess. ( )
  Bookaliciouspam | Sep 20, 2013 |
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