Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake

"Mike doesn't have any time to scream before she thrusts her hands into his chest, tearing through skin and muscle. She pushs her arms out to the sides, like she's forcing her way through a closing door, and Mike Andover is torn in half."

Gives me chills just picturing it! The first installment of this bloodstained ghost tale is sure to keep you turning the pages, even when you really think you don't want to. Kendare Blake has written scenes so vivid, its like you are actually there watching her float along her victorian house in her torn dress dripping with blood along the floor.

You can't resist our hero, Cas Lowood. He's your average teenage boy... if average was being a professional at slashing ghosts with a wicked obsidian blade. His job? To go where no one else would dare, to kill those who should already be dead and passed but to refuse to leave, and take innocent lives while haunting.

This book truly has it all: Sarcastic humor, forbidden romance, and bloody good scares that will be sure to keep you up at night. I loved every second of it, and hope you will as well. Ages 14+
 
--Reviewed by Courtney from Books Inc. Burlingame