The Dream

I purchased the Forever Gate Compendium Edition which comprises The Dream, A Second Chance, The Mirror Breaks, They Have Wakened Death, I have Seen Forever. However, I'm getting off this train after reading the first three book. There is so much Matrix-y going on that it made me think about re-watching the trilogy vs continuing the book. There are a great deal of similarities, with the primary difference being that the Inner is Earth flash-forward a thousand years, but fall back into Medieval times. Life and death - Inner and Outer and Outer again; what is real and what is perception. If this was written 30-40 years ago, I'd probably have found it fascinating. Hoodwink, The Users, Ari, Tanner, Jeremy -- I couldn't get behind any character nor care enough to continue to see where this leads.

2 of 5 Stars

From the Publisher:

Hoodwink Cooper has been sentenced to death. His crime? Attempting to blast a hole in the Forever Gate, the colossal wall that surrounds the city and protects the denizens from the uninhabitable Outside. There's only one problem - he isn't the one who planted the bomb. His daughter did, at the behest of a secretive society known as the Users. As the gols, the humanlike automata who have enslaved the humans, prepare to carry out Hoodwink's sentence, the Users plot even greater turmoil. If Hoodwink gives up the ghost without first extricating his daughter from their clutches, she will most likely join him in the afterlife. What Hoodwink and the Users don't realize is that they are all pawns in a greater game whose stakes are the very survival of humanity itself. Will Hoodwink escape in time to save his daughter? More importantly, will he break free of the invisible forces that guide him? Or will he succumb to the domination of his unseen masters and cause the breaking of the world, losing not just his daughter, but everything?

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