Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake, narrated by August Ross
Plot: Cas Lowood is a high school student and a ghost hunter. With the knife he inherited from his father (also a ghost hunter) Cas travels around the world killing murderous ghosts, and protecting the innocent people who believes ghosts only belong in stories. Until he comes to Thunder Bay* to kill Anna, where things don't go quite so smoothly.Favourite line: “You fuck - you ate my cat!”. It's not much in print, but the delivery was hilarious.
I loved listening to this book. The story was captivating; action, romance, and a bit of horror. There were a few pretty graphic descriptions of the nasty things ghosts could do to humans, and I am pretty sure I was making some weird expressions on public transit while listening to this one. The narration was pretty good. It was a male narrator for a male protagonist, which worked. He made a valiant effort to do girl voices, but they weren't his strongest. I loved the voice he did for one of the male jocks, it reminded me of one of the frog hunters in The Princess and the Frog**
Sequel:
Girl of Nightmares
*Yay Canadian location! AND a Canadian location that is treated like any America location (that is, no emphasis on beavers, or mounties or anything.
**"I will make him pay for his insolence!" (video)
Been wanting to read this for a long time now. Sounds super great with every review I read.
ReplyDeleteThe first few times I tried it, I couldn't get into it (though that may have been because I wasn't used to listening to audiobooks). Once I got a few chapters in though, it was great!
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