Anna Dressed in Blood

Name: Serina

Grade: 12+

Title: Anna Dressed in Blood

Author: Kendare Blake

Cas Lowood has an interesting job for a teenage boy, one that he took up after his father's terrible death. Cas hunts and kills ghosts. One might wonder how you can kill something that is already dead, and the answer is with a magical blade called an athame. Cas lives with his kitchen-witch mother and their ghost sensing cat, and their odd family is constantly moving for Cas' occupation. Their most recent place to call home is Thunder Bay, Ontario, where Cas is determined to go after one particularly bad spook that the locals call Anna Dressed in Blood. Anna was murdered on her way to a school dance, and she still wears the same white dress from that deadly night in 1958, only now the dress is soaked and dripping with blood. Anna haunts her old family home, and brutally kills anyone that dares to step inside. Cas has never dealt with such a bloodthirsty ghost, and things go less than ideal when his new schoolmates' 'prank' goes very wrong after a party and Cas wakes up from unconsciousness to find himself inside Anna's domain. To his great surprise, Anna spares his life. Cas doesn't know why Anna let him live when she hasn't let anyone else leave her house without being in pieces, or why she seems more self aware than any of the other ghosts he has faced, but Cas is determined to unravel the mystery or join Anna in death by trying.

I picked this book up because it had a cool cover and sounded interesting.

I finished this book because I wanted to know what was going on.

I'd give this book to any ghost fan, or any romance fan looking for a dark twist.

Rating: *** Liked it