Anna Dressed in Blood

I started Anna Dressed in Blood nearly half a dozen times before I got past the first few pages, and I am so glad that I did. The beginning was a bit rocky, and there was a section in the middle that I found extremely boring and unnecessary, but the book overall was good.

Cas comes from a legacy of ghost killers. Ever since his father was torn apart by some demon, ghost thing that got away, Cas has been on a mission to hunt down every spook he can and send them to their resting place. Armed with his father’s old knife, he and his mother travel the county based on tips from different covens and inner circles to destroy every beast they can.

Going off of a tip one of his friends gave him, Cas heads to Canada hoping to find and destroy the spirit Anna Dressed in Blood. But things are different here, not just with the spirit but with Cas as well. Cas has always put up walls, no reason to connect with other teenagers when he’ll be moving on soon, but that was before he met Thomas and Carmel.

Thomas isn’t ordinary, he can read people’s minds when he concentrates and comes from a long line of witches and voodoo channelers. It was Thomas who made contact with Cas’ inner circle to bring him hear, to destroy Anna.

But Anna is different than any other entity that Cas has faced. Her power comes from somewhere else, she knows that she is a spirit, and hates that she hurts people. There is something else, a demon inhabiting her spirit form. She wants out of her predicament, just as much as Cas wants to put her out. There is more to her original death than meets the eye, and more evil lurking around Cas then even he knows, things that go back to the murder of his father.

I really thought that this book was excellent (well, besides the part in the middle that just dragged on and on without any point or direction). I thought it was a great little ghost story, that delved into the misuse of magic, without being to scary of hard hitting.