I’d really enjoyed ‘Anna Dressed in Blood’ and was keen to see how Blake moved things on in the sequel. Desperate to find out what happened to Anna, I have to say I felt a bit disappointed by this.
Though it’s been months since Anna made the decision to support Cas in the way she did, he remains unable to forget the love of his life. I felt the opening part of the novel focused on Cas mooning around, not really doing very much. In spite of the fact that Cas’s best friends, Thomas and Carmel, have joined him, his inability to forget Anna is causing problems.
At this point we are introduced to The Order, a shadowy group with their own agenda, who offer to help track the Obeahman and help Cas work out what is going on.
There were some great scenes within the book – the Suicide Forest was genuinely creepy, and the scene between Anna and Cas after the fight was touching – but, on the whole, this was not as good as I’d hoped it would be. For too much of the time my attention was wandering and that’s never a great recommendation.