Shutter
Waiting on Wednesday is a meme hosted by Jill at BreakingtheSpine in which we spotlight a new release we can't wait to get our hands on.
Title: Shutter
Author: Courtney Alameda
Expected Release Date: February 3, 2015
Publisher: Feiwel & Friends
Goodreads Link: Shutter
Preorder Links: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Book Depository
Synopsis:
Horror has a new name: introducing 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.
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.
My Thoughts:
First I can't wait to get my hands on this book because I love anything horror, secondly as I was reading the Synopsis I saw that Micheline is a descendent of Van Helsing, and who doesn't love Van Helsing. This book sounds beyond creepy and exciting, I can't wait to get my hands on it! What book are you looking forward to see on the shelves? Leave a comment below I would love to hear from you!
-SandraTheBookWorm
Ooohhhh I really want to read this! And it comes out next week! I love horror and even though that cover looks a little cheesy, it sounds like a pretty good ghost story! Great pick this week :) Check out my WoW:
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I haven't read any horror in a while, so I'm really excited for this one! Thanks for stopping by!
DeleteI don't understand why it says Anonymous when I'm commenting even though I'm connected with my wordpress account :( Anyway! The cover is a little bit scary, I don't read a lot of horror books, but this one sounds interesting!
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Never mind, it worked oops hahaha
Deletelol! Yes, the cover does give me the creeps! thanks for stopping by!
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