Shutter

Title:

Shutter

Author:

Summary:

Seventeen-year-old MIcheline Helsing is a tetrachcromat, able to see ghosts in color and capture them on film. But when a routine hunt goes awry, Micheline is infected with a curse known as a soulchain. If she is unable to exorcise the entity in seven days, she will be destroyed, body and soul.

Physical Description:

372 pages ; 21 cm.

Genre:

Horror fiction.

Paranormal fiction.

Subject Term:

Van Helsing, Abraham (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.

Ghosts -- Fiction.

Photography -- Fiction.

Exorcism -- Fiction.

Blessing and cursing -- Fiction.

Publisher:

Square Fish,

Publication Date:

2016

ISBN:

9781250079961

Publication Information:

New York : Square Fish, 2016.

Call Number:

YA ALAMEDA

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Summary

Lock, stock, and lens, she's in for one hell of a week.

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.

Shutter by Courtney Alameda is a thrilling horror story laced with an irresistible romance.

Author Notes

Courtney Alameda received a B.A. in English literature with an emphasis in creative writing from Brigham Young University. She is a veteran bookseller and librarian. Her first book, Shutter, was published in 2015.

(Bowker Author Biography)

Reviews (2)

School Library Journal Review

Gr 8 Up-A paranormal ghost-hunting story that is a standout in the genre. With the ability to see spiritual auras, Micheline and her tetrachromat crew are the fiercest cadets in the Helsing Corps, an organization with an illustrious history that specializes in dealing with the undead. However, when they aggressively enter a dangerous situation they are unable to control, each of them is infected with a soulchain that will turn deadly if they are unable to break it within seven days. Micheline is a strong character with sharp reflexes that allow her to trap the soul of an entity on film using her camera. Through detailed scientific processes that are richly explained, Alameda has created a unique world of ghosts, reapers, and exorcisms. The setting is vividly portrayed through detailed descriptions of the shadowy ghost world superimposed on the San Francisco cityscape. Though the plot is leisurely paced, allowing space for a forbidden love story, there is plenty of action. Frightening from the first page, this novel is sure to please horror fans, particularly those familiar with ghost and vampire legends.-Carrie Shaurette, Dwight-Englewood School, Englewood, NJ (c) Copyright 2014. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Publisher's Weekly Review

Alameda makes a strong debut with this fast-paced urban fantasy/horror novel, which sees the last remnants of the Van Helsing and Stoker bloodlines running an organization dedicated to fighting the restless undead. When Micheline Helsing, daughter of the American branch's leader, takes her team to confront a murderous ghost, all four of them are infected by a terrible curse that will kill them in under a week if they can't find a cure. Unfortunately, Micheline's father would rather put them in quarantine instead of help them. The crew goes on the run, and as they battle undead monsters, elude the living, and confront the sins of the past, they learn that the solution to their fatal dilemma may lay closer to home than they expected. Alameda's worldbuilding is strong-this alternate version of San Francisco is dangerous and unpredictable-and her characters evoke shows like Buffy and Supernatural. The story has plenty of room to grow, and readers will be left eager to see what Alameda has in store next. Ages 13-up. Agent: John M. Cusick, Greenhouse Literary Agency. (Feb.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.