Anna Dressed in Blood and Girl of Nightmares: Review

*If you haven't read any of this books, this post may contain spoilers*

Anna dressed in blood synopsis: Cas Lowood has inherited an unusual vocation: He kills the dead.

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 athame, Cas travels the country with his kitchen-witch mother and their spirit-sniffing cat. They follow legends and local lore, destroy the murderous dead, and keep pesky things like the future and friends at bay.
Searching for a ghost the locals call Anna Dressed in Blood, Cas expects the usual: track, hunt, 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.
Yet she spares Cas's life.

Goodreads Review (Feb 23, 14): This was the first horror book I've read and it couldn't have been better. I just LOVED it. The book was so well written and all the horror and the mistery were amazing. I had no idea what was about to happen while reading it and that's why it was so good. All the ghosts and the killings were so awesome and the fact that it shows what their motivations were, the fact that we could understand the Why makes this book a LOT better. I absolutely loved Anna. I loved how badass she was, and her 2 appearances were amazing. I just loved how Cas allways called her My Anna, my goddess, their relationship was soooo beautiful that it actually made me blush and cry. I loved reading this and now I have to get the next one because I'm not done with Anna and Cas yet. 5*

Girl of Nightmares synopsis: 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.

Review: 

First of all I have to say I absolutely love the covers of this duology. They fit the story just perfectly.

These were the first horror books I've ever read, and I just loved Anna dressed in Blood and after the end of that book I was super eager to continue the story.

And Girl of Nightmares was beyond my expectations. I loved this book so freaking much and Kendare simply blew my mind.

The action in this book was absolutely awesome and terrifying!! Yes, I'm talking about the suicide forest (I just got the chills thinking about it). I'm a girl who loves watching horror movies but still gets completly frightened about most of them, and reading this book in the dark completly home alone is not a good idea, I repeat, IT IS NOT A GOOD IDEA.

I missed Anna quite a lot in this book, the visions Cas had of her were pretty creepy but I still wanted more. However,I loved the relationship between Cas, Thomas and Carmel in this book; they were just funny, perfect and interesting all together and Kendare did an awesome job showing us that.

I think the change of scenery from Canada to London and The Scottish Highlands was a brilliant idea. I loved all the creepy stories we were shown and told about London, and I loved getting to know everything about the Athame, the Order of Bla bla bla Biodag Dubh and Cas's role in it and all about his father.

One of the things I love about this duology are the references of several movies and actors I'm complety crazy about. For example:

“Every time I question him about the feasibility, he smiles at me like he's Yoda and I'm just a dumbass without the Force.” 

Now the ending. Let's talk about that ending... I never thought I was going to cry in this book, but that happened. Kendare Blake made me cry like a baby at 1am in the morning. That last conversation between Cas and Anna was just beautiful and so painful *starts sobbing* 

“What?" she asks, but I don't answer. Instead I kiss her, one time, and try to tell her in that single gesture everything that she'll forget as soon as she turns away. I tell her I love her. I tell her I'll miss her. And then I let her go.”

I loved everything about this book, about this duology. Probably these are going to be two of my favourite reads this year and I recommend it 100000%