Needless to say, Cas and Anna are my new favorite twosome. Blake's smooth combination of gore and romance should have little problem attracting the Twilight crowd.' - Booklist 'It's the old boy-meets-girl story, if the boy is a wry, self-destructive ghost-hunter bent on avenging his father and the girl is a homicidal ghost trapped in a house full of everyone she's ever murdered. Spellbinding and romantic.' -Cassandra Clare, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Mortal Instruments series 'Cinematic and compelling. ' Anna Dressed in Blood is a dark and intricate tale, with a hero who kills the dead but is half in love with death himself. One of NPR's Top 5 Young Adult Novels of 2011. Kendare Blake's Anna Dressed in Blood is a 2011 Kirkus Best Teen Books of the Year title. Since her death, Anna has killed any and every person who has dared to step into the deserted Victorian she used to call home. 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.

What he finds instead is a girl entangled in curses and rage, a ghost like he's never faced before. Searching for a ghost the locals call Anna Dressed in Blood, Cas expects the usual: track, hunt, kill. They follow legends and local lore, destroy the murderous dead, and keep pesky things like the future and friends at bay. Now, armed with his father's mysterious and deadly athame, Cas travels the country with his kitchen-witch mother and their spirit-sniffing cat. So did his father before him, until he was gruesomely murdered by a ghost he sought to kill. Cas Lowood has inherited an unusual vocation: He kills the dead.

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