Shutterbug Follies

This book was part of my birthday present from my darling sister, Jessa. It is a graphic novel about an eighteen-year-old girl who gets sucked into a murder mystery when she pays just a little too much attention to the photos she is developing at her job at the one-hour photo. Along the way she recruits a curious cab driver and a sweet but fairly clueless art gallery worker to help her in her quest to uncover the truth. Though at times the protaganist is annoyingly naive, the art style is engaging and the final plot twist is brilliant.

Murder mystery graphic novel set in the days of film development and pager codes. The story line is graphic (so mature in subject matter) but lacking in sophistication.

The main character, Bee works in a one hour photo booth developing film. She uncovers pictures of a murder and begins to investigate. Unfortunately she is drawn in and her life is threatened by the murderer. She is saved by her wits, her use of pager codes, and her cab-driver friend who sends the Calvary to her rescue.

Entertaining read, but not fabulous.

Smart and inquisitive Bee observes the strangers who come into the photo shop, through her lens and the pictures they bring in. But when a strange man brings in grisly murder pictures, does Bee do the right thing in trying to gather evidence against him?

Dark despite its usually bright pictures, and graphic in the violence-and-nudity sense of the word, this would be better for older teens and adults. Thoroughly engrossing, with careful timing.

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Nice little graphic novel about a girl who discovers disturbing things while working in a photography shop developing films. New York and the characters of the city are nicely portrayed. The plot, however, was rather cliched and improbable: at one point our heroine, Bee, is asked by her friend "So, uh, when are you going to call the cops?" The answer is, not just yet as we are only on page 25 out of 150... Still, good fun, if not exactly great literature.

A fun little detective story, colorfully illustrated and populated with interesting characters. Would like to find some other work by this creator.

Bleh. Nothing special here. A story that would be fairly weak as a short story is told in graphic novel form and it really isn't any better.

ya, adult, graphic novel