Catharsis

The book I'm reading is Catharsis by Ahniki. The book is about a young man named Leon who is in his teens that has been able to see sound in colors as long as he could remember and is plagued by nightmares every time he goes to sleep regardless of whether it's day or night. In these nightmares he's always finds himself as a different person being chased by this creature in absolute darkness with a bloody, dark, crimson red voice. However, a recent event occurred causing him to question his reality.

On his way to deliver food for the store that he works for, Leon rushes to get up to the fifth floor a of a tall building through an elevator. Suddenly the elevator shuts down and everything goes dark for a moment. Shortly after blaming his luck for all the misfortunes he had today, the elevator starts heading up again and he makes it to the fifth floor. When the doors slide open he instantly notices that the entire fifth floor is dark with no lighting whatsoever. Leon then begins to question and doubt himself on whether or not this is another nightmare as he didn't recall ever falling asleep.

He then hears a familiar voice, Ms. Sarah, his customer who he was supposed to give the delivery to was screaming somewhere for help. Some time has passed, and he finds Ms. Sarah there on the ground somewhere in the middle of the office on the fifth floor...there was a moment of silence, then deep in the curtains of darkness came a vicious, demonic laugh stained with the same color of red that Leon thought only existed in his nightmares. In a sinister voice it said, “I FOUND you BOY!!!”. The bloody red voice seemed to tower over him, but not as much as the huge skeletal face that smiled at him with a twisted smile.

While trying to escape with Ms. Sarah he was knocked unconscious and woke up to seeing the man that he was in his most recent nightmare in front of him. Now with his world warped inside out, Leon has to fight in order to find out the truth behind his nightmares and the monsters in them, but can his mind handle the truth? The truth that is the horrors of his past which he has locked away deep within the ever changing labyrinth of his subconscious.

Book Review by Chengyee H.