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Anna Dressed in Blood

#1 Anna

Kendare Blake Blake

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English
St Martins/Tor
03 July 2012
Series: Anna
From Kendare Blake, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Three Dark Crowns, a beautiful and haunting ghost story

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.

Kendare Blake's Anna Dressed in Blood is a 2011 Kirkus Best Teen Books of the Year title.

One of NPR's Top 5 Young Adult Novels of 2011.

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Imprint:   St Martins/Tor
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 208mm,  Width: 140mm,  Spine: 23mm
Weight:   272g
ISBN:   9780765328670
ISBN 10:   0765328674
Series:   Anna
Pages:   320
Publication Date:  
Recommended Age:   From 12 to 18 years
Audience:   Young adult ,  Preschool (0-5)
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Reviews for Anna Dressed in Blood (#1 Anna)

Abundantly original, marvelously inventive and enormous fun, this can stand alongside the best horror fiction out there. We demand sequels. -- Kirkus Reviews, starred review 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. By the end of the book, you will be too. Spellbinding and romantic. --Cassandra Clare, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Mortal Instruments series Cinematic and compelling. 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. Needless to say, Cas and Anna are my new favorite twosome. When I got to the last page, I flipped back to the first. --Holly Black, New York Times bestselling author of Red Glove


  • Commended for Tayshas Reading 2013
  • Short-listed for Green Mountain Book Award 2014

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