The Sleep Waves

Wisdom Revolution #4

by Misba

The Intuitionist, determined to find her past, reaches Alphatech—the research ground with twelve towers—everyone’s dreamland and the largest net for the school of fish. A deeper truth coils around it. Then there’s the Security Tower—always watching, constantly advising, with food in one hand and whip in the other.

The search for her past takes the Intuitionist to look for the Equation of God, a research banned for everyone except for the WSI, World Security Intelligence. They have secretly created the Sublime. Some call it the Doomsday Machine; others whisper it’s the Eye of God.

They make her sleep for looking into banned books. So she moves on her path, stepping along the Oldest Dance, and the universe takes her towards what the Mesmerizer has predicted she will want someday—the Source.
But first, she must fight the Mind World and untie the knots placed on her brain while protecting things they threaten to take. She must find out how these all connect to her past. How did it begin with her source?

Meanwhile, the Mesmerizer and the Monk are far ahead as the seekers of the Source. As they compete to find it first, they face trails from the Ones With Long Memories, leaving one of them stuck in a cave deep inside the earth. Will the universe favor them once more? Or will she shy away?

Genres: Fantasy, Science Fiction

418 pages, Hardcover

First published December 26, 2025

About the author

I could write a bio here--long or short. You won't know me still. Not in the way you could if you read things I wrote. But you can start here--from some of my articles. As for the books, Wisdom Revolution is out there.

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Reviews

[Misba]

No first-chapter posting, this time. At least, not here.
But still something from it--

The Great Convergence

The day isn’t far
When you’ll crave the one—
The art that will steal your dreams.
But it won’t come
Because your world is flipped
Beneath all grand schemes.
Fake words, fake news, fake booze
Fill your chalice in streams.
The Devil brings nymphs
Who sing lies of trance in hymns.
That day is the end of all days,
Lasting decades.
Though it’s only the Hour in One God’s dreams.

In that Hour, you’ll wish you had a friend
Of real flesh and blood in red enflamed—
Who will mend your heart smoked.
You got lured, dazzled by hell’s hanging fruit,
But when you touched it, inside, it was all grieving soot.
That day isn’t far
When you’ll crave peace and someone with measured brute,
Who would sing it all to the world from the Opener of Truth.
That day isn’t far when you will want her—
The one with a true smile and one matching foot.

[Michaela Roblova]

“The Monk stands up, too. You are angry, he says with a tone that says he dares not complain about it.
You’re not angry enough, she says before leaving.”

Wow. I mean, wow. This series just got so much more interesting. There are so many things to unpack that I hardly know where to begin. Misba draws countless parallels to our world while simultaneously deepening the story and its themes.

Readers only ever know as much as Kusha does. We delve deeper into Kusha’s past and learn more about the “Source,” but at the same time, I felt like I was in Inception — what is real, and what isn’t? How can you trust yourself when even your intuition no longer works?

The book also explores complex philosophical themes in greater depth. The author strongly criticizes capitalism and the herd mentality of people who blindly follow others without critically thinking about the information they receive.

All in all, I had a lot of fun reading this book, and I can’t wait for more. That said, this installment was definitely harder to digest than the previous books in the series.

[Lina Tae]

Review 2026:
Just loved that entry paragraph. Misba again proves to be a First Page Crafter. Could even say first five page crafter. Each of the page ends with a one-liner or some sort of banter that I end up flipping to the next page.
The author continues drawing more questions about the story of her past while Kusha gets into a research that will help her find her past. [It’s spoiler, but fine because it’s in the first ten chapters of the story] She wants to find an algorithm that will help her trace genetic tree back word. And to get that the author says she needs to find the Equation of God. That Chapter 8 and 9 impressed me so much that I couldn’t help but keep tracking notes on every ten chapters. And here is how the author builds the tension regarding the Equation of God.

But do you understand, if I summarize your work, you are basically looking for the equation of God?”
The Intuitionist doesn’t answer. Something in his tone says that she shouldn’t say anything. At least not without thinking.
“People discovered prana decades ago—” she begins.
“That’s not the point, Kusha. Look around you—the buildings moving, the floors hovering, the transports moving like boats in the air. We bottled gravity only three decades ago. And I can still say with confidence that the world isn’t ready to welcome the equation of God publicly.”

The author heavily criticizes the system that enslaves the people and their minds and people’s acceptance and numbness towards it. And she does it all in such a fun way. I couldn’t help but laugh during the conversations of Kusha with her friend Haley. The talk of the antisystem wasn’t dry. It was active. It was with banters. It was in quotable quotes and threes. Just the way Misba did in her last three books; the writing and character building is absolutely mind blowing. She takes care even of the very minor characters. For example—look at the above part I quoted. She talks with a researcher, and the man isn’t nameless. His is Mihir Stutterland who doesn’t stutter. But the way Misba introduces him on the scene—I keep getting impressed.

But Mihir interrupts her. “You can persist on your protocol when fate doesn’t interfere,” he says.
“And how is fate interfering now?” the woman asks dumbly.
“Isn’t it obvious? By putting Mihir Stutterland on the scene?” Mihir says, and the laughing snort is about to leave the throat of the Intuitionist. Almost. But she holds it at the last moment. She could swear that the man’s face almost looked smug, yet somehow, it just bypassed that prideful gaze and landed around a man of knowledge with a bit of wit. Perhaps much hatred for the system, too? Could be.

I absolutely loved the way Misba introduces the minor characters. I have seen her A+ Contents on Amazon. In The Sleep Waves she shows the minor chracters through Quotes. I liked all of them. Though I thought Maroc and Sunan could have better character intro from The Cheat Code instead of The Sleep Waves. Maroc was absolutely lovable character—someone we got introduced in a mind blowing way in The Cheat Code.
To speak of the Equation of God—I’m still talking about the first 10 or 11 chapters of the book, so no spoilers. The author connects the searches of both the war heroes, Yuan and Ruem, and their search for the Source—the author connects it the way Kusha reaches towards the Equation of God. I liked the philosophy behind it. And the way she explains things.
In the first part, the progonist heavily shows her disappointment of the system—it shows the AI of the industry whispers to everyone while controlling everyone’s minds and actions. The world building is just amazing like any great epic series.
She brings the twelve tower around the Racing Arena as the Alphatech—a tech industry’s model architecture.
I like the way she presented every harsh things in the industry, even though in the book it’s the tech industry. Around one time, I totally loved the way Kusha and Haley goes along with the bus tours. And the way she gets introduced into the world.

“Listen up, kiddos. Now, all the groups sure have names. The good names, I mean. But all of you lot will end up calling them what we, the seniors, have been calling them for decades. So I’ll just switch to the names you will be using, anyway. And again, this is unofficial, all right? Don’t tell anyone that I was the one who told you these names first. Deal?”
“DEAL!” the crowd almost screams. …
…
“He asks a hundred interns every week to keep it a secret,” someone says from behind. And then, the tour guide tells them a list of names: Facestrong, Mindstrong, Armstrong, Ballstrong, Headstrong, Legstrong, Fingerstrong, Throatstrong, Heartstrong, Wingstrong …
“At least, easy to remember,” Haley says after trying to remember more than two dozen names. “Maybe we should check out the Ballstrongs,” she says, laughing. Kusha thinks it’s mean, not just rude.
“You don’t want it. Trust me. That’s the department making security devices in collaboration with the IF and SLED,”

Trust me. This isn’t even the nearest one to the parts where I laughed the hardest. I was reading this series from the beginning. So I can tell. This was supposed to be published in ’24. So it feels the writing is from around two to three years back. So, by the time I came near the end of the book, I just have to my mind is blown up.
The review is getting large, and I didn’t even start with the Monk’s conversation with The Ones With Long Memories. Or the portions where both the Monk and the Mesmerizer go to their own expeditions—their searches for the Source in Archeology, that is in the past. While Kusha searches the Equation of God in the tech industry in research papers and books. But those who don’t want her to find the Source causes trouble. And that’s where Misba amazes me the most. That fight regarding the Mind World where she was attacked in a way that she forgets her reality.
Overall, I can say, this installment added much depth to the world while giving a mind blowing journey of an expedition for the Monk. I can sense that it gave Kusha a peek into the world of jobs and industry work—the place that people call hell’s gate while working like slaves for it. I can sense that the author is building the character’s purpose. I feel like eventually Kusha will see what Ren and the Monk’s tech insudetry holds. I feel like eventually she will leave it too like Ruem did. This is just my hunch. And the entire Sleep Waves is about how the industry behaved with Kusha Gaumont, showing the hell and it gate. The invitations, those mentions of what are usually written in the Ad screens around her, and the wall on her room showing ‘Next Level of the Pyramid’ every time she rebels or misbehaves. I have to I was made to gradually feel what Kusha felt. The rebelism didn’t happen in just one or four chapters. It was planned. It was prepared well with lots of true materials and meat.
Is there anything else that I have left to say? Oh Yes. I left the most part of it. If the first three books of this series was best for their one-liners this one is for her banter expositions.
So anytime I see a one star in this book, I’ll just know for sure that it’s because the author didn’t finish the story in the seires. The author have announced more seires that is not part of the Wisdom Revolution series, but it’s part of the Wisdom Revolution world. We probably just have read the Machinist, the Monk, and the Mesmerizer Chronicle’s first book.

Review 2024:
I could give a trip to the core of the world to know its title. Beholding ...

[Caleb]

This is the fourth book in the Wisdom Revolution series, I was hoping for a resolution and an ending. No such luck. It was extraordinarily repetitive, complex, fevered and confusing to my simple mind. I finished it only because I was hoping that this would resolve the many unanswered questions. Apparently there will be another book (or more) in the series - unfortunately.

The first one (the High Auction) was outstanding and I was eager to continue. Each book was a little longer than the previous one and a little less taut and focused but I still enjoyed them and the tales they told while hoping for a resolution and clarity.

[Molly McDonald]

Bonecrushingly waiting for the dark night of the soul.

[Natalie]

Read the series, had to read this last book; which come to find out it is not the last one. The concept, the story is good. However - there are tons of typos, grammar errors, circumstantial thought processes. The writer has a difficult time following the story, goes on a tangent with details that are not needed. Seems to be trying to make the story metaphysical and it is not, so the execution is lacking. Tons of unnecessary details (chapters worth). Half way through the book I got into it for 100 pages, but then again the story went down a cliff, never reaching climax. On top of it there is mixed Islam religion into it, and it just messed it up for me because I do not read fantasy books to decode religion, keeping them separate works better in my life. Not going to read number 5.

[Lee]

Incredibly original series from an unique voice. I love how each book gets bigger and deeper than the last. This episode took an unexpected (to me) turn from the previous ones. I was not expecting where the storyline went. But the themes, messaging and experiences of the characters are complex and deep, and strangely relevant today.
I'm glad the author self-publishes. I can't imagine how trad publisher's would have butchered the story otherwise, and stamped a generic YA cover on it. Let's support independent writers ✍️