Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts with the label Ghost

Book Review: Shutter by: Courtney Alameda

"Bloodlines and last names didn't make a man extraordinary — the extraordinary existed in what we did in life, not in who we were." -    Courtney Alameda ,  Shutter Shutter  provides a peek into what the world would be like if ghosts and monsters were common and ghost hunters were heroes. The heroine in this story is Micheline, heir to Helsing Corps, her family's famous monster hunting company and tetrachromat -- a girl who sees the auras of the undead in a prismatic spectrum. Being the only possible heir -- due to the traumatic death of her mother and two brothers -- puts a lot of pressure on Micheline, particurlary from her father, the current Commander-in-Chief of the company. This being said, Micheline and her father don't have the best relationship especially since the death of her mother, so it's no surprise that Mr. Helsing doesn't react well after a routine ghost hunt goes terribly wrong, endangering Micheline and her 3 crew members. After fa...