Title: Anna Dressed In Blood
Author: Kendare Blake
Publisher: Tor Teen
Pages: 316
Source: Library
Rating: 5/5 Stars
Just your average boy-meets-girl, girl-kills-people story...
Cas Lowood has inherited an unusual vocation: He kills the dead.
So
did his father before him, until his gruesome murder by a ghost he
sought to kill. Now, armed with his father’s mysterious and deadly
athame, Cas travels the country with his kitchen-witch mother and their
spirit-sniffing cat. Together they follow legends and local lore, trying
to keep up with the murderous dead—keeping pesky things like the future
and friends at bay.
When they arrive in a new town in search of a
ghost the locals call Anna Dressed in Blood, Cas doesn’t expect
anything outside of the ordinary: move, hunt, kill. What he finds
instead is a girl entangled in curses and rage, a ghost like he’s never
faced before. She still wears the dress she wore on the day of her
brutal murder in 1958: once white, but now stained red and dripping
blood. Since her death, Anna has killed any and every person who has
dared to step into the deserted Victorian she used to call home.And she, for whatever reason, spares his life.
My Review
Everybody
has been ranting and raving about this book and after reading the
summary about it, I knew it would intrigue me. It's supposed to be an
ironic paranormal romance which made me slightly nervous because I
honestly thought it would be cheesy and not my type of read. Don't get
me wrong, contemporary and romance are great, but mixed with a
paranormal plot, it just didn't sound too exciting.
I think the
order of this book was very well written and it set up the story
awesomely. It started out very action packed which I honestly didn't see
coming. I didn't expect this ghost story to be gory at all, but this
had some very disgusting aspects.
I can honestly say this book
made me tear up at some parts. It makes you have hope for some
characters. It makes you want to reach into the book and smack the hell
out of the others. Point is, either way you felt about them, it still
made you feel something. That's what I was hoping for in this book. It
exceeded my expectations.
