Bound and gagged–kidnapped–by a Control Operative who calls himself Raziel, Aislen Walker is locked away in a laboratory that will not allow her to wake up.
If she thought reality was bad, the dreams she is having are even worse. And as she is learning; they’re not really dreams.
Aislen is Traveling–back in time–and witnessing the horrors inflicted on her family by one man, Sigmund Lange, her great-grandfather and the mastermind behind Infinium Incorporated.
Developer of Control Operatives, creator of Manchurian Candidates, and expert at controlling the masses through mind control techniques, all he wants is one thing: to possess Aislen so he can restore his place at the throne of his corporation.
Awake, Aislen must face Raziel, a tormented soul possessed by a darkness she has experienced for herself. Will he kill her? Will he hand her over to Infinium Incorporated? Or can she trust him to protect her from being captured, mind, body and soul, by her great-grandfather?
This. Is. Not. A. Dream.
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They say, “write what you know” and for Shannan Sinclair that meant writing the weird.
At a very young age, Ms. Sinclair began experiencing many strange and extraordinary paranormal events, from dream travels and actual hauntings of her childhood home, to psychic phenomena such as premonitions, telepathy, clairvoyance and clairaudience. She has even had the pleasure of several of UFO sightings.
After twenty years of studying mysticism, holistic theology, philosophy and quantum theory, Sinclair wanted to weave those concepts with some of her own experiences into a fictional adventure.
Her first novel, Dream Walker explores the question: is our mind really only contained to our brain? Or is it possible that space/time/dimension travel, although not yet something we do on a physical level, is something we have always done through consciousness?
Shannan Sinclair was born and raised in the heart of the Central Valley running barefoot through its pastures and throwing dirt clods at crop dusters. She had the courage to escape once, joining the Air Force and living in exotic places such as Japan and Texas, but soon found herself sucked right back into the undeniably charming vortex of Modesto, California.
I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.
We are still following Aislen as she is beginning to just realize the potential of her power. Her life is in danger and she thinks it’s from Raze/Raziel but she soon learns that more than one person is gunning of her. She thinks that she is dreaming only to find out what she is really seeing is past events. As she pieces together all of these events she is realizing that these events are all leading to her.
Her world has changed from thinking it’s just her and her mom after her father abandoned her to learning that her father left her and her mom to save her and to discovering a maniacal grandfather that wants to posses her mind and her body. Will she be able to learn how to defend herself and those she love and still keep herself intact?
A good portion of this book felt like a really serious acid trip as Aislen would fall into one dreamscape after another. We learn about her grandfather and how his reign of terror started and how he created all of the pieces that eventually lead to her birth. His experiments caused many deaths and many mind-altering breakthroughs that he harnessed for his own uses.
Aislen and Raze once they established that he was not the one trying to harm her kind started feeling like a really bad teenage angst fest. One minute she wants him to kiss her then she’s unsure and when Raze tries to keep a distance she is devastated. The does he like me does he not thing got a bit annoying. Then having a scene or a moment and immediately repeating the same scene or moment again with dialogue just got too repetitious and didn’t add much to the storyline. The story was a bit choppy and disjointed in places, like I said it was like a bad acid trip at times.
Seeing the growth in Raze was great. He went from a controlled puppet doing what ever he was told know matter how bad, to someone that was reconnecting with humanity and with himself. He was willing to sacrifice himself to save Aislen and to help others, which for the old him was so out of character that it took him a while to adjust to the new way he was looking at the world.
This story was mostly about the sick mind of her grandfather Sigmund with Aislen bouncing around in his slimy memories than it was about her. Aislen was a quick study when it came to figuring out how to use her abilities and once she got away from any possible male interests she seemed to be able to think much clearer and was much stronger. There were occasional glimpses of her confidence trying to come out at different times in the story and towards the end of the book she was able to make her own choices even with the tough consequences.
This is an excellent sci-fi thriller. There is so much happening in this book that any reader will be entertained throughout. The storyline is well-written and well thought out and gives the reader pause to question dreams, time travel, and viewing. The character is developed and we watch her learn and hone her skills. I enjoyed this book. I voluntarily read an ARC and this is my honest review.
Good book. I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review. This is sci-fi thriller. Like this story a lot, recommend.
Re read to prepare to write the 3rd book in the series. Even though it is the most recent book I wrote, I still was surprised by the story. Maybe I am channeling more than I thought lol