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The document provides a summary of the young adult paranormal novel Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake. It describes the story of Cas, a 17-year-old ghost hunter who must kill the powerful ghost Anna before she destroys the whole community. The summary outlines Cas's backstory and weapon of choice, and details some of the key events in the plot including Cas investigating Anna's history, confronting her with a clairvoyant, and ultimately working with Anna to defeat a more evil ghost responsible for his father's death.

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Anna Dressed in Blood

The document provides a summary of the young adult paranormal novel Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake. It describes the story of Cas, a 17-year-old ghost hunter who must kill the powerful ghost Anna before she destroys the whole community. The summary outlines Cas's backstory and weapon of choice, and details some of the key events in the plot including Cas investigating Anna's history, confronting her with a clairvoyant, and ultimately working with Anna to defeat a more evil ghost responsible for his father's death.

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Anna Dressed in Blood

By Kendare Blake

Summary
Anna Dressed in Blood is a young adult paranormal novel by Kendare Blake.
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. 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. Blake is a popular writer for teenagers, and writes in a
variety of genres from paranormal to contemporary. Her latest series, Three
Dark Crowns, is a bestseller.
The main character of Anna Dressed in Blood is a seventeen-year-old boy
called Theseus Cassio Lowood, or “Cas”. To most people, he looks like any
other teenage boy. But Cas has a secret—like his father and his ancestors
before him, he hunts and kills ghosts who are causing trouble in communities.
His mother is an herbal witch who helps keep Cas out of too much trouble, and
she travels around the country with him.
Cas’s weapon of choice is a blade called an athame. By stabbing a ghost with
the athame, Cas can bury the spirit forever. Most spirits Cas kills are expected
to end up in Hell. All Cas knows is that a vicious ghost killed his father, and he
won’t stop ghost hunting until he finds the spirit responsible.

Content
One day, Cas gets a tip about a particularly dangerous ghost causing trouble in
Thunder Bay, Ontario. She’s called Anna Korlov—or, colloquially, “Anna
Dressed in Blood”. Cas doesn’t know much about Anna, but he knows he
needs to take her on. He convinces his mother to move to Ontario, where he’ll
need to enrol in a new school.
When Cas starts his new school, he looks for someone who can help him find
Anna and understand what’s so dangerous about her. Otherwise, he won’t
know what he’s getting into or how difficult she’ll be to kill. The most popular
girl in school, Carmel, says that Anna’s something of a local legend, and she
agrees to tell Cas all she knows.

Carmel isn’t the only local interested in Anna. Three local boys, Mike, Will,
and Chase. They decide to show him where Anna died, in the hope he’ll run
away terrified. But when they go inside the house and Anna appears, she kills
Mike—but spares Cas.
Cas has never encountered a ghost which seems to deliberately spare
individuals. He wonders if there’s any way to talk to Anna and find out what
her real story is. He might be able to help her move on without killing her. His
mother refuses to help, believing this plan is dangerous. Instead, Cas finds a
local clairvoyant, Thomas, who agrees to help him solve Anna’s mystery.
Together, Cas and Thomas confront Anna. It’s obvious she’s hiding something
from them. He must find out the truth before she kills anyone else.

Cas and Thomas discover the truth about what happened to her, and they want
to help her move on. Anna’s own mother killed her and cursed her to stay in
the house forever. However, Anna’s not alone—there’s another more evil,
vicious ghost there with her, and it’s the one who killed Cas’s father.
This other ghost, the Obeahman, torments Anna because it knows this is a way
to hurt Cas. Cas is torn between saving Anna and fulfilling his ultimate
mission: killing the ghost that killed his father. Thomas helps Cas’s mother
with a spell that will help Anna leave the house and escape the Obeahman. The
others worry Anna’s tricking them, and that she’s actually going on a killing
spree.
Anna, however, is a friendly ghost and just wants peace. She also wants to help
Cas with the Obeahman. Cas explains he’ll need to nick her skin with the
athame to lure the Obeahman into a trap which his mother will set up. The
snare works, and the Obeahman is trapped. Anna’s the only one both strong
enough and close enough to the spirit realm to destroy the Obeahman forever.
In doing so, she ends up “dying” herself.

Everyone’s sad to see Anna go, but they’re relieved the Obeahman is gone.
Cas, however, isn’t so sure. He wonders if Anna truly found peace, or if she’s
stuck with the Obeahman. His next mission, covered in book two, revolves
around Cas’s journey into the spirit world to find her.
My opinion
I admired the way that the events in Anna Dressed in Blood linked together in
some way at the end of the story, and everything started clicking into place. I
cannot express how amazing this book is! It is definitely on my favourite books
list. Despite only finishing it a day or two ago, I am already half way into the
sequel, Girl of Nightmares. I honestly recommend every teenager, regardless of
whether you are a girl or boy, read this chilling story of love and anger.

About author
Kendare Blake is a contemporary author of young adult novels. Her works
include Anna Dressed in Blood, Antigoddess and Three Dark Crowns.
Originally from Seoul, South Korea , Kendare Blake was raised in Cambridge,
Minnesota by adoptive parents. Kendare Blake is the author of several novels
and short stories, most of which you can find information about via the links
above. Her work is sort of dark, always violent, and features passages describing
food from when she writes while hungry. She was born in July (for those of you
doing book reports) in Seoul, South Korea, but doesn’t speak a lick of Korean,
as she was packed off at a very early age to her adoptive parents in the United
States. That might be just an excuse, though, as she is pretty bad at learning
foreign languages. She enjoys the work of Milan Kundera, Caitlin R Kiernan,
Bret Easton Ellis, and Richard Linklater.She lives and writes in Gig Harbor,
Washington, with her husband, their cat son Tyrion Cattister, red Doberman dog
son Obi-Dog Kenobi, rottie mix dog daughter Agent Scully, and naked Sphynx
cat son Armpit McGee.

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