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evie_oliva 's review for:
Shutter
by Courtney Alameda
This had so many interesting ideas! I was invested in the world but I really hated the main character. I just couldn't support her actions as the plot developed.
Update/Extended Review
Goodness, gracious, I sincerely wanted to love Shutter, but I really, very nearly came to despise the lead character, Micheline Helsing. Micheline is a tetrachromat, which boils down to the fact that her lineage, as a descendant Van Helsing, means that she was born with an ability to see the undead. It's actually a little technical and definitely unique, and I was sold on reading the book based on that idea alone. The plot follows Micheline and her team, consisting of Oliver, Jude and Ryder, as they work to rid the world of monsters. One hunt goes wrong and the team is cursed with something called a "soulchain" that leaves them with seven days to figure out how to get rid of the monster that cursed them or they all will die.
By the time I read the first chapter and saw how the hunt went wrong, I was already of a mind to give dear, stupid, selfish Micheline a slap to the head. Honestly, I've seen the many rave reviews but all I can say is that I do not and will not EVER support a main character who puts other people in danger because of their stupid decisions. First, she ran into a hospital, ALONE, thinking she could exorcise the ghost that's terrorizing the place, even though she knows doing that was against her orders. She also KNOWS that her team of loyal idiots will scramble after her to protect her. Then they get cursed. The whole thing is all her fault and she never truly showed any remorse for it. Instead, she continually acted defiant about the situation and continued to put herself and others at risk. She kept information from her team and whined a lot, and I didn't care for her or the boys one bit.
The boys were boring and Micheline's father was a jackass. Honestly, the only reason I kept reading was because I wanted to know the reason behind the curse, I wanted to understand the villain of the book, and I wanted to see more of the world that was created here. Because really, the world itself was fantastic. I just didn't give two figs about the people in it.
*** The text of this extended review is available on my blog. This is the link to get there.
http://breakingoutofdreams.blogspot.com/2016/01/reading-challenge-reviews-on-shutter.html
Update/Extended Review
Goodness, gracious, I sincerely wanted to love Shutter, but I really, very nearly came to despise the lead character, Micheline Helsing. Micheline is a tetrachromat, which boils down to the fact that her lineage, as a descendant Van Helsing, means that she was born with an ability to see the undead. It's actually a little technical and definitely unique, and I was sold on reading the book based on that idea alone. The plot follows Micheline and her team, consisting of Oliver, Jude and Ryder, as they work to rid the world of monsters. One hunt goes wrong and the team is cursed with something called a "soulchain" that leaves them with seven days to figure out how to get rid of the monster that cursed them or they all will die.
By the time I read the first chapter and saw how the hunt went wrong, I was already of a mind to give dear, stupid, selfish Micheline a slap to the head. Honestly, I've seen the many rave reviews but all I can say is that I do not and will not EVER support a main character who puts other people in danger because of their stupid decisions. First, she ran into a hospital, ALONE, thinking she could exorcise the ghost that's terrorizing the place, even though she knows doing that was against her orders. She also KNOWS that her team of loyal idiots will scramble after her to protect her. Then they get cursed. The whole thing is all her fault and she never truly showed any remorse for it. Instead, she continually acted defiant about the situation and continued to put herself and others at risk. She kept information from her team and whined a lot, and I didn't care for her or the boys one bit.
The boys were boring and Micheline's father was a jackass. Honestly, the only reason I kept reading was because I wanted to know the reason behind the curse, I wanted to understand the villain of the book, and I wanted to see more of the world that was created here. Because really, the world itself was fantastic. I just didn't give two figs about the people in it.
*** The text of this extended review is available on my blog. This is the link to get there.
http://breakingoutofdreams.blogspot.com/2016/01/reading-challenge-reviews-on-shutter.html