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 dagger, Cas travels the country with his kitchen-witch mother and their spirit-sniffing cat. Together they follow legends and local folklore, trying to keep up with the murderous dead - keeping annoying things like the future and friends at bay. When they arrive in a new town in search of a ghost the locals call Anna Dressed in Blood, Cas doesn't expect anything outside of the ordinary: track, hunt, and 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. But she, for whatever reason, spares Cas' life.
Wow. That was scary. Seriously, this stuff really freaks me out. I was sitting there wondering how the author managed to write something so good and scary without freaking out?... Maybe I'm just extra sensitive to this stuff.
I liked this book, I had pretty high hopes for it though and it didn't quite meet my expectations. The whole romance thing with a ghost kind of really didn't work for me, it freaked me out and wonder how it would even be plausible.
