In ANNA DRESSED IN BLOOD, after dispatching a ghost in North Carolina with a special knife only he can wield, 17-year-old Cas is headed to Canada with his white witch mother to see about another ghost, one nicknamed Anna Dressed in Blood. While sexual content is just kissing, swearing of all intensities ('damn' to 'f-k') is a regular occurrence and there's some heavy teen drinking at a party (though with a designated driver). He suffers many injuries including a concussion, near organ failure, and bruises. Cas dispatches other ghosts with a special knife and learns their stories of how they died, usually violently. Hauntings show gory details of deaths, such as spilled intestines. Cas' father had also been found dead, partially eaten, 10 years before. People unknown to Cas are found killed and partially eaten. Two of these teens are found dead, ripped apart with blood everywhere one is killed by a parent one is ripped in half by a ghost. Teens known to the main character, Cas, die gruesomely - three of them in the present, one in a flashback that includes fear of sexual abuse. It's a good fit for mature readers who are avid watchers of scary movies. With 'blood' in the title, you'd be smart to expect lots of it here, along with ghost scares. Parents need to know that Anna Dressed in Blood is the start to a horror series by Kendare Blake ( Three Dark Crowns) with a movie in the works produced by Twilight author Stephenie Meyer and starring Maddie Hasson and Cameron Monaghan. Some teen smoking.ĭid you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Drinking, Drugs & Smoking in your kid's entertainment guide. (Sept.Teen drinking to drunkenness at a party. But the pop culture references are generally sharp (Ghostbusters references make for an effective running gag) and on point, and the result is an enjoyable horror tale. Blake occasionally gets too cute-naming a character “Will Rosenberg” in a story in which characters are aware of Buffy is pushing things, as is the notion that today’s small-town teens are all Rules of Attraction. When the ghost eviscerates a local in front of Cas, he realizes it will be a much harder struggle than previously anticipated, joining forces with psychic Thomas and popular girl Carmel to discover Anna’s history and attempt to free her from her curse without destroying her. He and his mother (a witch) move from town to town, and his latest target is the titular Anna, a 16-year-old girl killed on the way to a dance in Thunder Bay, Ont., in 1958. Seventeen-year-old loner Cas follows in his late father’s footsteps, hunting down vengeful ghosts and dispatching them before they can hurt more people. Effectively blending horror and romance, Blake (Sleepwalk Society) delivers an exciting and witty gothic ghost story.

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