![]() ![]() If Jake can’t control his mind by doing everything in a proper order at the precise moment of a prime number on clock, his life will surely spin out of control. ![]() It’s a disjointed, fragmented, disturbing world that chokes both Jake and the reader with the omnipresent threat of both exposure and insanity. Heidi Ayarbe plunges the reader into Jake Martin’s obsessive compulsive world from the first page of Compuls1on. Jake’s third soccer state final championship is coming up on Saturday, and if everything goes perfectly by the numbers, he’s sure he’ll be free of the demons that plague him. But the magic means more to Jake than just winning on the field his obsession with prime numbers and his increasingly complex daily rituals keep him focused, keep his family “safe,” and keep the spiders and their choking webs from taking over his mind. Senior Jake Martin is the school’s soccer star: he’s got the magic that pulls off win after win and keeps him at the center of the school’s in-crowd. ![]()
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