A review by vickycbooks
Shutter by Ramona Emerson

I'm not generally a fan of modern crime novels, but I enjoyed how Emerson wrote Rita's story.  Even though Rita is a very level-headed protagonist she also goes through some really stressful experiences and this makes the book also a little bit stressful to read at times. I think Emerson did a good job of developing Rita's situation in the novel but I also felt like there was an excessive number of flashbacks. Maybe I'm overly biased because I'm not a fan of flashbacks in books, but I felt like even though there was a lot of character building, it also just wasn't super relevant to the main plot. For a lot of the book I was very interested in hearing what happened to Irma and having that part of the plot push forward. But after almost every chapter, we essentially jump back in time to Rita growing up and getting new cameras and changing her relationships with her mom and her grandmother and people in her community.

I think people who enjoy really solid characterization developed through flashbacks will enjoy SHUTTER. Charley Flyte did a great job narrating the story and especially conveyed a lot of the urgency and the fear associated with the ghost very well. 

Thank you very much to Libro.fm for providing the complimentary copy! I listened on 2 to 2.5x speed.
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