Review Girl of Nightmares (Anna, #2) by Kendare Blake

Title: Girl of Nightmares (Anna, #2)

Author: Kendare Blake

Publication Date: November, 2014

Publisher: Mizan Fantasy

Page: 400

Language: Indonesian

ISBN13:9786021306048

Anna berdiri di semak-semak di luar rumahku, menatapku. Sorot matanya kosong dan mati, sama sekali hampa dan tak bisa kukenali …. Sementara aku berusaha mengatur napas, selarik darah gelap meleleh dari hidungnya. Aku kembali menatap jendela, setengah menduga ia sudah pergi, setengah berharap dia sudah pergi—tapi ia masih di sana, tak bergerak.

The sequel of Anna Dressed in Blood and a bday gift from my friend. After reading the first one, I still have a little curiosity to read the final book. Although I don't really happy to read this sequel.

This is a typical print from Mizan which is taller than Gramedia print. It's light, typeface, font size, and spacing is fine. The cover--well it's not my auto buy cover (yes I judge a book by it's cover, don't judge me!), but pretty and scary enough. We can see Anna's face peeking through in this book cover. Like the previous book, there are no illustrations of color inside but there are blood-like ornament on each even pages.

Characters
I didn't find any character development from Cas or the reason why he is so special. About the family history or this whole supernatural aspect are still not well explained in this book. Or maybe there are explanations but it didn't catch my mind to absorb it.

Anna only has scenes toward the end of the book, she has many haunting appearance throughout the book though. She is fine...nothing extra ordinary...I think.

Camel and Thomas have a little conflict in the middle but, not an impact to the whole story. They are fine.

Story
Hmm. For me it's just random stuffs added to fill the gap that the author want to be. So this book definitely less interesting than the first book.

This book didn't has impact or whatever to me. My reluctance to read this series make my review very subjective and not neutral. Sorry. But I really didn't want to sugar coating and digging stuff that I don't want to care anymore. Thank you

Overall I give it 3 stars.