The beloved haunting romance from #1 New York Times bestselling author Kendare Blake, now with an all-new bonus novella! 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.
The beloved haunting romance from #1 New York Times bestselling author Kendare Blake, now with an all-new bonus novella! 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.
The beloved haunting romance from #1 New York Times bestselling author Kendare Blake, now with an all-new bonus novella! 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.
The beloved haunting romance from #1 New York Times bestselling author Kendare Blake, now with an all-new bonus novella! 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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Anna Dressed in Blood
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I like the descriptive words and how the plot flowed but in some places it was fast when it should have been a little slower. I would put this in the younger readers about 16 and up. Entertaining.
originally posted on booktopia.com.au
Really good tempo to this story. I liked that the story is male POV as this is not always the case with YA.
originally posted on booktopia.com.au
Really good tempo to this story. I liked that the story is male POV as this is not always the case with YA.
| Variant | |
| author | Kendare Blake |
| format | Paperback |
| language | English |
Anna Dressed in Blood
Delivery between 25 Mar – 2 Apr $9
Anna Dressed in Blood: 1 Paperback – 12 September 2023
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I like the descriptive words and how the plot flowed but in some places it was fast when it should have been a little slower. I would put this in the younger readers about 16 and up. Entertaining.
Really good tempo to this story. I liked that the story is male POV as this is not always the case with YA.
Really good tempo to this story. I liked that the story is male POV as this is not always the case with YA.
I love it! Prefect condition!
It was an interesting book but i would have like to read more about Anna the ghost.
I bought this because I had unwittingly picked up its sequel in a secondhand store and after three pages in realised I needed to read this one first. It's compelling plot was held in tension with it's gruesome details and horror dimension. Not something I would normally read but felt that getting to the end would resolve it for me. Definitely not for a novice reader or the faint of heart.
Cant wait to read this book for Halloween :D Ive heard so much about it
My interest was peaked from the very first chapter! I read this book two years ago and I loved it just as much as I did the first time around. The chemistry between Cas and Anna, along with the relationship and closeness between Cas and his mother, had me smiling to myself. I was so happy and proud of the main characters' development and was left with wishing nothing different happened to their relationship with each other. The detail in the book gave me chills at times, and that very rarely happens when I'm reading.Now for the reasons why I gave this book 4 stars instead of 5. The sentences were kind of short and choppy and was written to where a ten year old could easily read it, but that wouldn't be recommended because of the graphic detail of the ghosts and ... MoreMy interest was peaked from the very first chapter! I read this book two years ago and I loved it just as much as I did the first time around. The chemistry between Cas and Anna, along with the relationship and closeness between Cas and his mother, had me smiling to myself. I was so happy and proud of the main characters' development and was left with wishing nothing different happened to their relationship with each other. The detail in the book gave me chills at times, and that very rarely happens when I'm reading.Now for the reasons why I gave this book 4 stars instead of 5. The sentences were kind of short and choppy and was written to where a ten year old could easily read it, but that wouldn't be recommended because of the graphic detail of the ghosts and especially the profanity, which in my opinion were not even needed sometimes. Also it took a while for Cas and Anna to even meet and I feel that made their romantic relationship develop a little too quickly. But all in all a very good book that made me not want to stop reading!
Woah!! So I finished this pretty quick and purposely stopped reading so I could purchase the sequel, so I could immediately continue with the story ... Anna dressed in Blood is absolutely HORRIFIC!! In the best ways possible. It's funny, it's gory and I love the horror style romance.
| Variant | |
| author | Kendare Blake |
| format | Paperback |
| language | English |
