Ash Mistry and the City of Death (Ash Mistry Chronicles, #2)

Rick Riordan did it for Greece. Now Sarwat Chadda does it for India... Book two in the incredible action-adventure trilogy about Ash Mistry, reluctant hero and living weapon of the death goddess Kali. Ash Mistry is leading a pretty complicated life. Theres school, his unrequited crush on girl-next-door Gemma... and then theres the fact that hes the reincarnation of the great Indian hero Ashoka, not to mention the small detail that he died last year, and came back as an agent of the goddess of death. So when the demon servants of the evil Lord Savage come after Gemma in order to get to Ash, youd think hed be ready to take them on. But Lord Savage still has some tricks up his sleeve. And with Gemma out of the picture, the English villain is closer than ever to finding a magical aastra of his own, and the power to rule the world. Its time for Ash to go up against his enemy once again. Luckily, as the human embodiment of the kali-aastra, Ash can find the weak points in any living thing and kill it. But the key word there is living. And little does Ash know that Lord Savage has mastered another branch of magic one which allows him to create whole armies out of un-living stone... Ash Mistry is leading a pretty complicated life. Theres school, his unrequited crush on girl-next-door Gemma and then theres the fact that hes the reincarnation of the great Indian hero Rama, not to mention the small detail that he died last year, and came back as an agent of the goddess of death. So when the demon servants of the evil Lord Savage come after Gemma in order to get to Ash, youd think hed be ready to take them on. But Lord Savage still has some tricks up his sleeve. And with Gemma out of the picture, the English villain is closer than ever to finding a magical aastra of his own, and the power to rule the world. Its time for Ash to go up against his enemy once again. Luckily, as the human embodiment of the kali-aastra, Ash can find the weak points in any living thing and kill it. But the key word there is living. And little does Ash know that Lord Savage has mastered another branch of magic one which allows him to create whole armies out of un-living stone I første bok flyttet Ash Mistry til India for å bo hos onkelen. Der ble han ufrivillig helt i en farlig kamp mot den onde Savage. Livet hans er fortsatt ganske komplisert: mye å gjøre på skolen, en ulykkelig forelskelse i nabojenta Gemma, og det faktum at han er en reinkarnasjon av den store indiske helten Ashoka, for ikke å nevne en liten detalj som at han faktisk døde i fjor, men ble sendt tilbake som dødsgudens agent. Og når Savage sender demontjeneren sin for å ta Emma, er det bare starten på en lang rekke nye forviklinger Ash Mistry was just a slightly geeky kid until he fell on the wrong arrowhead and absorbed the unstoppable powers of the Death Goddess Kali. Now Ash can kill any living thing with a touch, so when the demon servants of the evil Lord Savage come after him again, you'd think he'd be ready to take them on. But how do you kill something that never lived?