The Hidden Simulation: Secrets Time Intended to Keep

by Silas Orven

Genres: Dystopia

278 pages, Paperback

Published November 24, 2025

Reviews

[Ismija · Rating 1 out of 5]

I didn’t read this book in full — just the preview. And honestly, that was more than enough.

The author’s website alone raised every red flag imaginable: claims that the book was “attempted to be deleted,” availability exclusively through a single website, plus constant prompts to buy the audiobook and “unlock all videos.” This is textbook sales funnel marketing designed to create artificial urgency, not to deliver real value.

The content itself feels like a repackaged version of The Secret and similar Law of Attraction material — heavy on self-promotion, light on substance. The preview reads less like a book and more like an extended advertisement for the author’s personal brand. Oh, and apparently he’s from the future. Make of that what you will.

If you’re genuinely looking for meaningful personal development content, look elsewhere. Your money — and your time — are better spent somewhere else.

[Neto Pinto · Rating 4 out of 5]

I don’t really know what to say about this one

[Sama Khalilova · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book makes you to think about your choices that effect the reality you are living

[Quinn · Rating 4 out of 5]

jungian gnosticism translated into self published prose :D

[Magdalena Rouillard · Rating 5 out of 5]

Interesting ideas ! A bit intense but some things resonated.

[Harley Claes · Rating 1 out of 5]

This entire book is generated with AI. While it is an interesting concept, the writing is so clearly written by chatGPT that it actually makes it impossible to read once you see the signs. His book is written with the same line breaks, language, hyphens, and repetitive style that AI generated writing is. (If the cover photo being ai generated isn’t telling enough) and despite me really enjoying the concept, I couldn’t get through it without this unnerving me due to how genuinely poorly it is written. Which makes the story its trying to tell even more ironic, given he talks about how technology and AI eventually destroy society. In the beginning as well the disclaimer clearly states the book is a work of fiction. Like another reviewer said, the marketing scheme for this book is definitely a person trying to build their own personal brand. Like seriously, how could he be an actual time traveller and feel that its important to make and keep up a social media account and try and make 20$ each from an electronic copy of the book? All the comments praising him about how transforming and predictive the book is are MOST LIKELY himself or people helping him market the idea. Because I can tell you as a writer, this book is written extremely poorly. I mean seriously, what kind of author writes a book sentence by sentence with a line break in between each one, instead of paragraphs. While I do love the concept and the persona/story this person is trying to sell, it was really poorly executed. Luckily I downloaded the book for free off of annas archive and did not waste my money. Hate to expose him like this but if he’s going to try and build a whole personal brand like this, he should at least make his writing less noticeably ai generated.

And to the author: At the very least silas, write the book in your own words.

[Monet Rahall]

Some genuinely interesting ideas about how much of our behavior is conditioned, but it started to feel like the same point being repeated with increasingly dramatic wording

[Jasmine Salazar · Rating 3 out of 5]

I liked this story, however, I hated it in audio form........The A.I. reading was so terrible. It just did not have the impact of what I thought it would. While being a short story, it felt like it could have been a bit longer. I really did like the premise and story overall. It made think back to 2019 and where I ans what I was doing. That last few minutes of the book gave me the same chills as the end of the movie Dont Worry Darling... if you know... you know..