Category Five

Name: Category Five
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Ann Dávila Cardinal
ISBN: 9781705001592

Author: Ann Dávila Cardinal

Narrator: Almarie Guerra

Unabridged: 7 hr 15 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 06/30/2020

Categories: Young Adult Fiction, Suspense & Thriller, Hispanic & Latino, Horror

Synopsis

After the hurricane, some see destruction and some smell blood.

Vieques: a small island just off the northeastern coast of the main island of Puerto Rico.
A place struggling to recover after Hurricane Maria, where developers smell desperation and see opportunity.

A paradise turned hunting ground for something angry that the storm revived.
Lupe, Javier, and Marisol are back to investigate a series of murders that follow in the wake of destruction and in the shadow of a mysterious new threat.

Category Five is a supernatural thriller set against the backdrop of a post-hurricane Puerto Rico, about the families we choose and the monsters we never see coming.

About Ann Dávila Cardinal

Ann Dávila Cardinal is a novelist and director of student recruitment for Vermont College of Fine Arts (VCFA) where she earned her MFA in Writing. She also helped create VCFA’s winter writing residency in Puerto Rico. She comes from a long line of Puerto Rican writers, including poets Virgilio and José Antonio Dávila, and her cousin, award-winning fiction writer Tere Dávila. Ann lives north of Stowe, Vermont with her husband Doug and son Carlos, and likes to spend her free time cycling, doing fiber arts, and preparing for the zombie apocalypse. Five Midnights (Tor Teen) was her first solo novel.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Gerardine on May 06, 2020

I'm from Puerto Rico and I lived like many Puerto Ricans the disasters that Hurricane Maria left on the island. Many of us suffer months with no power, no running water, no communication, or food. At that time getting gasoline or ice was an odyssey, we had to get up very early and make a line for ho......more

Goodreads review by Jessica {Litnoob} on June 28, 2023

4.5 stars First and foremost I wanted this to be longer because I had an amazing time on this ride. Category five picks up a full year after the events of Five Midnights and really shows us a different island living through all the same problems and then some. While our cast of characters are trying t......more

Goodreads review by Jennifer on June 23, 2020

Category Five by Ann Dávila Cardinal is a follow-up to her YA novel, Five Midnights, and continues the supernatural sleuthing adventures of Lupe, Javier, and Marisol during Lupe’s first time back to the island after Hurricane Maria. Lupe finds not only the island ravaged by the storm, but soon disco......more

Goodreads review by Sofia (Bookish Wanderess) on August 19, 2020

I haven't read the author's previous book which is supposed to be like a companion novel to this, and I definitely agree that it wasn't necessary. While there were references to the previous book, they told me enough that I didn't feel lost or like I was missing anything. I listen to the audiobook o......more

Goodreads review by Allie on October 07, 2020

Set in post-Maria Puerto Rico, this supernatural YA thriller explores a community that is rebuilding after the category five hurricane and grappling with investors sweeping in to take advantage of the natural disaster that has left destruction across their land. What I loved: Category Five kept me on......more