Giselle's Reviews > Shutter

An unsolicited Advanced Reader Copy was provided by the publisher for review.

Micheline Helsing is a descendant from the Van Helsing lineage. She's a hunter of monsters, spirits and ghosts alike. When one of her hunts goes awry and her and her team end up being cursed by a soul-chain, she learns that all of their lives are at stake. Willing to defy her father, she goes off with her team in search of the ghost.

Bloody well done! I was on the edge of my seat most of the time. And it wasn't so scary as the cover seems to be. Though there are certain scary scenes that I pictured the writing is just so easy to digest that I pretty much read this in one day. It didn't drag on at all because there was so much action scenes, it hardly stopped. The whole capturing-ghosts-in-cameras but isn't anything new since there's that video game that has the same theme, but the whole Helsing aspect of it was quite good.

And I really liked Ryder's and Micheline's relationship. Nor was it the focus. I love books where romance isn't necessarily the main reason for the character to do anything. But there are exceptions to my own rule. Micheline is very stubborn and doesn't realize she loves the love interest romantically and I quite liked that. She's so busy trying to save everyone that she doesn't know what to do with her heart or who to give it to. Out of all the secondary characters I found Jude to be the most hilarious. He just had the most funniest things to say.

Pick this one up if you love action with a side of romance and a smidgen of mystery! I was expecting something else entirely but what I got was a page turner of a book!

RATING 4/5

QUOTES

"I don't need you to save me. I can save myself." (70)

"Was loving someone different from being in love with them?" (238)

"The extraordinary existed in what we did in life, not in who we were." (286)

"We are not defined by our lack of fear—but rather by what we choose to do when facing the nightmare." (342)