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Catharsis — D. Andrew Campbell
The mesmerizing debut novel from a new author!
Every villain is the HERO of their own story...
One night after dinner Catarina Perez gets into an argument with her sister and parents and storms out of the restaurant to walk home and blow off steam. And that's the last thing she remembers.
Waking up in an alley several hours later, Catarina can't remember anything that's happened to her since leaving her family at the restaurant. But even worse than a faulty memory is the realization that she's covered in blood. Someone else's blood. And that particular "someone else" is lying dead in the alley next to her.
As she flees the alley where she awoke (and the street thugs who politely stop and attempt to mug her), Catarina realizes her body is undergoing a radical (and frightening, but still exciting) transformation. She had always been athletic (Krav Maga classes with her dad), but now she can sprint for miles without even breaking a sweat (or needing to pause and rest). Her five-foot-one-inch frame was never known for strength, and now punching a solid oak door off its hinges isn't even a challenge (But it is unnerving and moderately thrilling.). Her body hasn't just stopped at developing enhanced speed and strength, though. All five senses have begun to reach new heights of sensitivity, too. She can hear a person's heartbeat from across the room or see in absolute darkness like it was a brightly lit and sunny day.
Ever since she woke up next to that blood-covered corpse (Not a phrase any teenaged girl ever wants to have to utter.), Catarina has been developing powers beyond her wildest dreams. But she is discovering that they come with some seriously lousy drawbacks. She now has to wear sunglasses during the day to cut back on the painfully bright lights around her (like the sun, fluorescent overheads and even the one in the fridge), all food is beginning to lose its taste (even her beloved liquid of choice - Mountain Dew) and her heightened sense of smell has made gym class absolutely unbearable. Oh, and there's one other small thing...she's developed an uncontrollable urge to eat other humans. There's that, too.
As Catarina slowly adjusts to her new powers and the repercussions of what they bring to her life (both the breath-takingly good, and the tear-inducingly bad), she realizes that sometimes you have to accept just a little evil in your life in order to accomplish the greater good.
Every villain is the HERO of their own story...
One night after dinner Catarina Perez gets into an argument with her sister and parents and storms out of the restaurant to walk home and blow off steam. And that's the last thing she remembers.
Waking up in an alley several hours later, Catarina can't remember anything that's happened to her since leaving her family at the restaurant. But even worse than a faulty memory is the realization that she's covered in blood. Someone else's blood. And that particular "someone else" is lying dead in the alley next to her.
As she flees the alley where she awoke (and the street thugs who politely stop and attempt to mug her), Catarina realizes her body is undergoing a radical (and frightening, but still exciting) transformation. She had always been athletic (Krav Maga classes with her dad), but now she can sprint for miles without even breaking a sweat (or needing to pause and rest). Her five-foot-one-inch frame was never known for strength, and now punching a solid oak door off its hinges isn't even a challenge (But it is unnerving and moderately thrilling.). Her body hasn't just stopped at developing enhanced speed and strength, though. All five senses have begun to reach new heights of sensitivity, too. She can hear a person's heartbeat from across the room or see in absolute darkness like it was a brightly lit and sunny day.
Ever since she woke up next to that blood-covered corpse (Not a phrase any teenaged girl ever wants to have to utter.), Catarina has been developing powers beyond her wildest dreams. But she is discovering that they come with some seriously lousy drawbacks. She now has to wear sunglasses during the day to cut back on the painfully bright lights around her (like the sun, fluorescent overheads and even the one in the fridge), all food is beginning to lose its taste (even her beloved liquid of choice - Mountain Dew) and her heightened sense of smell has made gym class absolutely unbearable. Oh, and there's one other small thing...she's developed an uncontrollable urge to eat other humans. There's that, too.
As Catarina slowly adjusts to her new powers and the repercussions of what they bring to her life (both the breath-takingly good, and the tear-inducingly bad), she realizes that sometimes you have to accept just a little evil in your life in order to accomplish the greater good.
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