Girl of Nightmares
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Kendare Blake
Girl of Nightmares, the thrilling sequel to Kendare Blake's critically acclaimed Anna Dressed in Blood. It's been months since the ghost of Anna Korlov opened a door to Hell in her basement and disappeared into it, but ghost-hunter Cas Lowood can't move on. His friends remind him that Anna sacrificed herself so that Cas could live—not walk around half dead. He knows they're right, but in Cas's eyes, no living girl he meets can compare to the dead girl he fell in love with.Now he's seeing Anna everywhere: sometimes when he's asleep and sometimes in waking nightmares. But something is very wrong...these aren't just daydreams. Anna seems tortured, torn apart in new and ever more gruesome ways every time she appears.Cas doesn't know what happened to Anna when she disappeared into Hell, but he knows she doesn't deserve whatever is happening to her now. Anna saved Cas more than once, and it's time for him to return the favor.
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Author
Kendare Blake
Pages
332
Publisher
Macmillan
Published Date
2012-08-07
ISBN
0765328666 9780765328663
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""You always put yourself out there. Hell-bent on ruin."<br/><br/>Girl of Nightmares is the sequel to Anna Dressed in Blood, which I read last year & really enjoyed. Anna Dressed in Blood was more of a horror story, and Girl of Nightmares felt like a fantasy story with horror tones (which is fine; I think I just expected the tone to be more like the first one). <br/><br/>This book has more of a focus on grief, but it was hard to feel sympathetic for Cas after a while. The journey he went on was completely illogical, and I was frustrated by it. He dragged other people into danger for a pointless cause. I can get behind stories if the character's purpose makes sense, but I had a hard time with this one. <br/><br/>There was a creepy scene in a suicide forest that I enjoyed, and I wish there would have been more spooky stuff in Girl of Nightmares. I would love to read another story set in this world one day - it would be really cool to read some novellas or short stories about other ghosts, or from some of the other characters' POVs."
Emily
"Loved this sequel! Kendare Blake is definitely one of my favorite authors! Loved the suspense that came with reading this series, and how you felt you were with the characters the whole time"
KaLeigh Jenkins
"This book was such a great read! Loved it so much that it got me good at the ending and this is just written so well and you call really connect with every single one of the characters. One of the best sequels I've read!!"
Haily
"I’m sorry I loved the first book but it has taken me 18 days to get 50% into this book and nothing is happening. The stakes are debatably higher than the first book…..so why is it boring? The first 50% of this book should have been 2-3 chapters rather than 15."
Isa
"Ok so it was mostly serendipitous that I ended up reading the sequel to “Anna Dressed in Blood” because it literally became available from the library the minute I finished the first one. But I’m so glad I read it, I thought I would be ok to leave it how the first one ended but there were a lot of unanswered questions. I felt like this was a great follow up and filled in all the gaps leftover from the first book. And of course it was a much more satisfying ending. I really enjoyed this duology, it was the perfect way to close out October and the season of horror!!"
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Allie Peduto