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Review: Girl of Nightmares by Kendare Blake

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This book is the second book in the Anna Dressed in Blood duology. It follows Cas in the months after Anna has disappeared, taking the Obeahman with her into Hell. Cas can’t stop thinking about Anna and soon he starts seeing her appear when he least expects it. Something seems wrong and Cas decides to find out where Anna is and why she seems to be trying to contact him from the other side. This leads to ghost hunting, portals and secret societies until everything is revealed and Cas must decide if he wants to sacrifice possibly everything in order to save Anna.   I really liked this book, and even though it has been a long time since I read the first one there were only a few times when I felt like I was missing something. But the book quickly caught me up and I didn’t feel like it took away from the reading experience of this book too much.  As in a lot of YA I feel like I would have liked basically everything to have been explored a bit more. I would love t...

Winter Book Haul

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So I know I said a few posts ago that I wasn’t being books these days. But then my favorite online book shop had a sale…and I caved! I bought 8 books, but they all had 20% off, so I couldn’t not buy them, right? First I got the two first books in the Harry Potter series. I bought these, because I have them in Danish, and I really wanted the complete set in English. I don’t know if you can call it a “set” as such, as they are in three different editions….But I actually really like this edition, so I don’t mind the mis-matching set too much. Then I got “Between Shades of Gray” by Ruta Sepetys. I have heard nothing but good things about this book. It is set during WWII, and deals with the deportation of Lithuanians to Siberia on the order of Stalin. I just read the synopsis and the main character is a young girl who encodes her drawings to give her imprisoned father a chance to find them again. Now I want to read it even more! I also got “365 Ways to Change t...