The Second Chance

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:

Prematurely aged by the use of a power known as vitra, Ari now heads the Users, the secretive cabal that strives to protect humanity from those who would enslave them - the gols. The User ranks were decimated shortly after Hoodwink vanished ten years ago, and she rebuilt the group from the ground up. In that time, she'd given everything she had to the Users, and human society in general. Body. Mind. Soul. For what? It hadn't mattered. She hadn't changed a thing. The world still died a little every day. The snowstorms worsened, the cold became colder. Human enslavement continued. The Forever Gate remained standing, hemming them all in as it always would. And then there was The Drop, a relatively recent phenomenon that involved human beings dropping dead for no apparent reason. Not just one at a time, but hundreds throughout the city, all at once. Society was falling apart at the seams, despite her best efforts. Despite her attempts to seize power from Jeremy, the mayor. Ari was ready to throw in the sack and nominate her replacement. She could no longer lead the Users. She had failed. She was far too old. And then, ten years after she last saw him, Ari receives a message from the father she believed long dead.

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