Shutter
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Courtney Alameda
Micheline Helsing is a tetrachromat -- a girl who sees the auras of the undead in a prismatic spectrum. As one of the last descendants of the Van Helsing lineage, she has trained since childhood to destroy monsters both corporeal and spiritual: the corporeal undead go down by the bullet, the spiritual undead by the lens. With an analog SLR camera as her best weapon, Micheline exorcises ghosts by capturing their spiritual energy on film. She's aided by her crew: Oliver, a techno-whiz and the boy who developed her camera's technology; Jude, who can predict death; and Ryder, the boy Micheline has known and loved forever.When a routine ghost hunt goes awry, Micheline and the boys are infected with a curse known as a soulchain. As the ghostly chains spread through their bodies, Micheline learns that if she doesn't exorcise her entity in seven days or less, she and her friends will die. Now pursued as a renegade agent by her monster-hunting father, Leonard Helsing, she must track and destroy an entity more powerful than anything she's faced before . . . or die trying.Lock, stock, and lens, she's in for one hell of a week.
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Author
Courtney Alameda
Pages
382
Publisher
Macmillan + ORM
Published Date
2015-02-03
ISBN
125007388X 9781250073884
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"The synopsis for Shutter grabbed my attention immediately, and I was so excited to check out this book. The concept was really intriguing to me, but this book starts out slow and confusing. It took me a while to get invested - somewhere around 35%. Normally I would have DNFd by that point, but again, I wanted to see what happened with the synopsis.<br/><br/>It had my attention for a bit in the middle, but then lost me again, and the story continued to lose steam as the book went on. The reveals felt silly, and I thought it would be more sinister. All of the characters were annoying, and the main character's decisions didn't make any sense. It felt really far-fetched after a while. There was also a chapter focused on a suicide in the past, and it was gratuitous since it didn't really make a difference for the overall story whether it was there or not. So, this book didn't really work for me. <br/><br/>CW - suicide of a parent (with some graphic details), nonconsensual kiss"