Goodreads Monday (10/26/20)–Anna Dressed in Blood

Happy Monday, bibliophiles!

Considering that I’m in school, this post is coming a LOT earlier in the day than it normally would–and that’s because I’m out of school for a snow day today! REJOICE! Just what I needed. Even though it’s close to Halloween, it definitely looks like a winter wonderland outside my window. Oh, and it’s a balmy…6 degrees Fahrenheit outside. (Welcome to Colorado…)

Goodreads Monday is a weekly meme created by Lauren’s Page Turners. All you have to do to participate is pick a book from your Goodreads TBR, and explain why you want to read it.

For my final spooky season Goodreads Monday of 2020, I’ve picked a book that I wouldn’t normally pick up–the plot sounds great, but it was ultimately the author that convinced me to read it.

Let’s begin, shall we?

GOODREADS MONDAY (10/26/20)–ANNA DRESSED IN BLOOD by Kendare Blake

Blurb from Goodreads:

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.

So why do I want to read this?

Two words (or, one name, rather): Kendare Blake.

Her Three Dark Crowns series remains one of my favorite fantasy series to this day. The action, the worldbuilding, the tense political intrigue, the…the everything, really. Blake made me fall in love with fantasy again. I liked Antigoddess as well.

As most of you probably know, I’m not usually one to pick up horror, but I can dabble in that kind of spookiness from time to time. I am, however, drawn to books centered around unusual, fantasy-related family businesses like Cas’s. There’s so much potential for backstory and dark humor with that, and that’s the main reason why Anna has me hooked.

In short: I came for the Kendare Blake, I stayed for the possibility of paranormal intrigue.

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That’s it for this week’s Goodreads Monday! Have a wonderful rest of your day, and take care of yourselves!