3.5 stars 
 Anna Dressed in Blood was one of those books I had mentally marked as books-that-no-doubt-will-i-really-love. My little mistake. I expected too much. Don't get me wrong, the book's good, even I was hooked the instant I got the gist of it. There's just something so enticing with how the plot was weaved that really drew me in I couldn't allow myself to just stop reading. I was that hooked. Especially with the horror, ghostly factor on it which I admit I'm a freak for, that made the story darker and the more irresistible. I love gothic dark stories btw. My festive reading ran smooth until I got to the part where the plot protruded some little fudgy bits, yes I get that they're all significant to where the story was going but as it progressed, however, the initial thrills I was carrying hadn't. Where as for the characters, I loved and adored Cas. His voice was influencing, equipped with strong determination, far from what I expected from a typical emo teenage boy amidst the superheroic sideline. If I ever get to meet the types of him, no doubt I would be sharing the same feelings with the majority of his fan girls in school. lol. The romance wasn't quite zoomed, thanks to the un-privy-ness of Cas. But not until you get to the end. As for Anna, who's dressed in blood, I liked her. I liked the way she interacted with Cas and I find her to be an engrossing ghost, as evident with how Cas was engrossed as well. Packed with some intense, gory, nail-biting and goosebumps-urging scenes, Anna Dressed In Blood would leave you hooked and implanted wanting for more and more ghosts to bust any more than you want them to scare the living daylights out of you!