![]() ![]() Blake populates the story with a nice mixture of personalities, including Anna, and spices it with plenty of gallows humor, all the while keeping the suspense pounding. Meanwhile, Cas learns that Anna won’t kill him, so he enlists her aid in tracking down the voodoo spirit that literally ate his father. These help him until one steals the athame, an unfortunate choice. When he answers a call to dispatch Anna, a ghost that’s brutally dismembered dozens of ill-fated folks who stepped into her house, for the first time Cas makes some friends. He only kills ghosts who kill humans, but plenty of those lurk everywhere, forcing Cas and his white-witch mother to move constantly. ![]() Theseus Cassio Lowood has inherited his father’s athame, a magical knife that can slice and dice ghosts to bits. Teeth-chattering suspense and suppressed chuckles might attack readers in this superior black comedy/adventure. Life can get tough for a boy who kills ghosts. ![]()
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