Book: Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare BlakeGenre: YA Fantasy/Horror
Rating:★ ★ ★ ☆☆
For: Fun
From: Amazon for Kindle
This book will go down as the very first book I ever read on a Kindle/e-reader! What an honor, yes? I think so!
This is the story about a kid (already I forgot his name! But it's kind of a strange one.) that hunts ghosts. If there's a ghost around that is causing havoc... or especially killing people, he's the guy to come to the rescue. This is what brings him to Canada to find this ghost named Anna who has been really ruthless.
When he gets there a few different things happen. First, he makes connections with non-ghost people unlike he's ever done before in all his comings and goings. This is strange to him and makes him think differently about his work and his life. Second, he makes a connection with the ghost herself, Anna. She has two sides. The ruthless scary killer, and the sweet simple girl she was before she died. He loves the girl she used to be.
He knows she has some sort of unusual power that makes her so strong and he is determined to figure out what that is and take care of that to solve the issue instead of his normal ghost hunting/killing routine. It's then that we find out Anna's sad background and all the crazy stuff that went on!
This book reminded me a lot of certain scenes from The Vampire Diaries.... namely Bonnie's witch scenes with all the spell casting going on. There was lots of that. It also reminded me of Buffy, since that's particularly recent in my head, with older mentor guy helping them figure out how to best deal with the situation, and with a particular kid who has special unworldly powers to deal with unworldly things. Yes, very Buffy-ish.
It was a fun quick book. Not something I'd recommend to everyone because of the violent bloody scenes and the witchcraft and the language scattered about, however. But a nice ghost story if that's your thing!
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I laugh everytime I hear someone call this scary. I'm so desensitized. Sigh.
ReplyDeleteI bought this one because I've heard so many good things about it, but I still haven't gotten to it. I wonder what I'll think about it?? Hm ...
ReplyDeleteThis was one of my favorite books from this past winter. It reminded me a lot of Supernatural. I can't wait to read the next one!!
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