To most people, he looks like any other teenage boy. The main character of Anna Dressed in Blood is a seventeen-year-old boy called Theseus Cassio Lowood, or “Cas”. Her latest series, Three Dark Crowns, is a bestseller. Blake is a popular writer for teenagers, and writes in a variety of genres from paranormal to contemporary. It was first published in 2011 by Tor Teen and was nominated for numerous fantasy and young adult awards, including the 2012 Endeavour Award and the 2015 Lincoln Award. It’s the first book in the Anna duology and tells the story of a ghost hunter who must kill a very powerful ghost before she destroys the whole community. “This is an enjoyable book – as fast-paced and gory as Darren Shan, amusingly sarcastic and as romantically bittersweet as a Bronté novel.Anna Dressed in Blood is a young adult paranormal novel by Kendare Blake. “Sucked me in and kept me glued to the pages.” Paranormal Book Reviews The story is full of sharp wit and terrifying chills that will keep readers enthralled until the last page.” RT Book Reviews “I lived inside of this novel, swallowed whole by it’s beauty and anguish. She also enjoys girls who can think with the boys like Ayn Rand, and boys who scare the morality into people, like Bret Easton Ellis. Amongst her likes are Greek Mythology, rare red meat and veganism.

She brakes for animals, the largest of which was a deer, which sadly didn’t make it, and the smallest of which was a mouse, which did, but it took forever. She received a Bachelor’s degree in Business from Ithaca College and a Master’s degree in Writing from Middlesex University in London. Kendare Blake is an import from South Korea who was raised in the United States. It has no missing or damaged pages, and no visible creasing. Since her death, Anna has killed any and every person who has dared to step into the deserted Victorian she used to call home.Ĭover image: For illustration purposes only. 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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