WoW #33 - Shutter by Courtney Alameda

Waiting On Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Breaking the Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.

Shutter by Courtney Alameda

Expected publication: February 3rd 2015

Genres: Horror, Paranormal; Ghosts; Young Adult

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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.

Since Halloween is on Friday, I think Shutter would be the prefect book to read about now! Just look at that cover, it screams Halloween to me. Shame it isn’t out until February… a little over a week before Valentine’s Day. Yeah… I digress. I adore this cover, and it’s easily one of the creepiest covers I’ve seen in a while. I adore ghost stories and if this lives up to the synopsis, then it has so many elements I love to read about! *Fingers crossed* it’s amazing!

What book are you anxiously waiting on this week?