Synopsis:
Cas Lowood has inherited an
unusual vocation: He kills the dead.
So did his father before him,
until he was gruesomely murdered 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. They follow legends and
local lore, destroy the murderous dead, and keep pesky things like the future
and friends at bay.
Searching for a ghost the locals
call Anna Dressed in Blood, Cas expects the usual: track, 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, now stained red and dripping with 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.
Yet she spares Cas's life.
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Review:
Review:
Anna Dressed in Blood is a morbidly good read—for the most part.
I usually steer away from books
that include ghosts, not because I am easily spooked but because ghosts just
don’t appeal to me. Why I took the plunge and read this book, I don’t know. Perhaps
it was because I expected some gory things based on the description and title
of the book, and I’m a girl who likes gory and morbid things.
I like it that this book is written
from Cas’s POV. I didn’t have to read a lot of description about how hot a guy
is, or how much a character is drooling all over him. I like hot guys, sure,
but only when I’m not being reminded of how hot they are every page. Anyway,
being inside Cas’s head is entertaining, but it can be annoying, too. The
constant I’m-too-good attitude is sometimes very irritating, but let’s face it:
everyone thinks like that once in a while. Even fictional ones, apparently. Cas
is pretty cool for the most part, but he lacks certain emotions, especially
about Anna.
Anna could have easily been my
favorite character. She was portrayed to be this badass girl who kills everyone
who dares to step inside her house. For the first half of the book, she’s that girl, but then. . .nah. She had
been tamed too soon for my taste. I understand that it has to be that way, that
it’s part of the plot, but I was just starting to enjoy the badassery (I strongly suggest this
should be a word) of her character, and it was taken away from me too soon. I
do liked her story. It was the highlight of the book for me, because it’s the
only thing that spurred my emotions.
I like the
description of the icky stuff and the
way the action was written, but it didn’t give me the creeps that I was
expecting (is it because I don’t mind morbid things?). I could have done
without the romance, though. The romance between Cas and Anna seems like a
sorry attempt of romance to me. I’m a sucker for romance, but this one is just
very weird for me. Not because it’s between a living guy and a dead girl, but
because it lacks emotions. There are no sparks, no intensity, no
out-of-this-world feelings, nothing. Cas sounded robotic when it comes to this
part. He’s protective of her, but that’s just about it. He’s a guy, sure, but I
believe even guys can think about something sweet and romantic, or Anna should
have said something of the like. I’m looking for a. . .deeper emotion between them. I find Carmel and Thomas more romantic,
and the crush in there doesn’t even seem mutual, so I think that’s saying
something.
I hate it that I only liked the
morbid things and action that went down in this book, and not the romance. I
want a book with a complete package, but this one didn’t do it for me. Still,
if you take out the romance part in the equation, I liked this book. I’m going
to read the sequel, and I hope there’ll be an improvement in the romance department
if it’s going to be a major part of the book (and it looks like it will be).
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