The Mirror Breaks

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:

Ari followed her father to the Outside and learned of a way to defeat the gols who enslaved humanity. The key lay in the Control Room, a special Box that, when opened, would give them the tools they needed. That Box was located in the house of mayor Jeremy. She and Tanner managed to place a tracker in the house but, surrounded by enemies and faced with overwhelming odds, they fled before completing the mission. Using the tracker, Ari returns to the Inside with Tanner only to discover that the mayor has laid a cunning trap for the two of them. Barely escaping with their lives, the pair begin a wild goose chase that leads across the different virtual cities of the Inside. Unbeknownst to them, Jeremy has dispatched a four-armed assassin, Brute, to hunt them the whole time. With air quickly running out on the Outside, Ari and Tanner race against time to find the Box before their bodies die of hypoxia. When Brute arrives, threatening to dismember them piece by piece, a breathtaking chase scene unlike anything you have ever read before unfolds...

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