Girl of Nightmares

~Full review here on The Bent Bookworm!~Girl of Nightmares is the sequel to the ever-so-popular [b:Anna Dressed in Blood 9378297 Anna Dressed in Blood (Anna, #1) Kendare Blake https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1398637405s/9378297.jpg 14261925], so be warned there may be SPOILERS for the first book! This review is also very short because books like this are hard to review without giving too much away and ruining the fun of the read for everyone.———-- Cas is back, and he's just as moody and kind-of-sort-of angry as in the first book. He's not as hell-bent (no pun intended) on revenge, but now he's kind of mooning over the fact that Anna is gone...or is she? At first he thinks he's going crazy as he starts to see her when he's out ghost-hunting, but then he becomes convinced she is in some kind of trouble (more trouble than a usual trip to the afterlife would entail) as she always appears to be tortured when she appears. Yikes.- Cas's friends are more real in this book. At least, this time I actually remembered them, whereas when I started this one, I only had a vague recollection of there being other people involved somewhere...maybe that's my fault, my memory is not the greatest. 😛 His mom is sweet and adorable and reading the scenes with the two of them kind of made my heart hurt. Like, what is it like to be able to be friends with your parents?- Partway through, the book moves to England and I LOVED IT. It just made it that much more interesting even if they didn't get to explore nearly as much as they should have because obviously they were trying to save Anna.- Anna herself is only in this book in VERY short segments. I was a little bit disappointed by that but there was really no way to bring her into the story that would make sense.- The descriptions succeeded in making me pull my covers up and make sure my doors were locked (not that locked doors would help me if there was a ghost after me...buuuuut you know). I love it when a book succeeds in raising the hairs on the back of my neck! Surely I'm not the only one that literally has that happen...not just a figure of speech here!- The ending was...well, it was closure...and that's about all I can say without spoiling it! My hat is off to Kendare Blake for ENDING THIS DUOLOGY right here. I can imagine it might have been tempting to extend it, with the popularity of Anna Dressed in Blood, but it felt really good to finish not only a book but an entire story.Blog Twitter Bloglovin Instagram Google+

Rating sama seperti buku pertama, 3 bintang artinya so-so saja. Bukannya gk suka juga, cuksuka tapi biasa saja.
Disini Cas, Thomas & Carmel terbang ke Inggris untuk bertemu suatu orde yg membuat athame Cas. Ada tokoh cewek baru & langsung suka sama Jestine.
Endingnya memang seharusnya seperti itu, lebih baik lagi kalo Cas bersama Jestine pada akhirnya...

I was so glad to return to Cas's world. I think he spent the second book really becoming the warrior he was meant to be. There is an international adventure, some new characters, and some drama between friends. I took it down a star only because I left the story without really understanding Jestine or Gideon and it seemed to me that so much of the set up of the book was to get to Gideon. In the end, I highly recommended this one for fans of Anna. I do not recommend reading this one without having read the first book. Unfortunately it is out of the running as a book club choice due to language, but I can think of ten readers right now that would love this one.

The battle that Cas has to go through to be a good friend and a good ghost hunter are the strength of this book. There are plenty of sketchy adults in this book and I appreciate that the author doesn't try to make them sympathetic. They are vaguely antagonistic and that's a good backdrop for the story. I really appreciate the way that Cas ends up fixing the problem. It was creative and fit right in with the rest of the story.