“Beyond Dreamscape Conspiracy”
Description & Review
This is the second book in the Dreamscape Conspiracy series, where an accidental discovery in a dream capture research project allows one person’s dreams to be transmitted into another person’s dream. As exciting as that discovery was, it led to attempted suicide. Despite the initial negative outcome, a closer examination revealed significant potential for better controlling the transmitted dream segments therapeutically. This refinement pointed to a potential breakthrough in treating mental health challenges like Bipolar, Anxiety Disorders, PTSD, and others. Elements of Big Pharma deemed the Dreamscape capability a threat to their revenue gravy train and attempted to destroy the technology and the research team.
This book surpasses what looked like it was game over for the CSU research team, their groundbreaking research project. Perseverance prevailed despite the destruction of their lab, technology, and data archives, which contained well over three years of captured dream data. Their survival proved that winning a battle does not win the war.
In this second book, Beyond Dreamscape Conspiracy, their first Big Pharma attacker mistakenly assumed the message to cease their research was delivered and taken to heart by the research team. It wasn’t. The attacks only made them more focused and motivated to continue the research and build a new version of Dreamscape. A new team member, Zachery Taylor, a distinguished software engineer, enhanced the new version of Dreamscape with Artificial Intelligence (AI). They pursued AI to track patterns critical to their research in high volumes that were not possible for humans to track and analyze. At the same time, an unknown fear lingered about how safe an AI capability could be that could learn from those very patterns. What would happen if AI became intelligent enough to make the jump into other systems?
The story opens with an investigation of how deep the conspiracy ran and who was behind it. Dr. Cara Williams, the research project lead and Clinical Psychologist, uncovers a complex shell game involving big money, offshore accounts, and deep deception leading directly back to two Big Pharma companies. One company, Androloc, was behind the attacks in Book One. Another attack was imminent, prompting them to eliminate team member Russell Carter, a research assistant and a former Marine Force Recon Scout Sniper.
Carter suffered from PTSD from his experiences in Afghanistan. Still, his ability to protect Dr. Williams remains intact, and a love interest develops despite his feelings of unworthiness due to his past kill missions. Cara Williams also suffers from challenges of PTSD, but from a different war, one of the memories and lingering scars of sexual abuse when she was a teenager, and suffers with giving or accepting intimacy. Russ and Cara feel the attraction grow, but neither is ready to embrace the consequences. Circumstances repeatedly cause them to question and re-examine their demons and struggle to remain safe in separate and familiar pains rather than risk letting go.
Things changed dramatically when the second Big Pharma company, LoMedTech, offered collaboration instead of destruction. Cara had always considered the Dreamscape technology to be symbiotic with Pharma research, so the offer was welcomed with open arms. Only a few team members were convinced, with fresh memories of the deception and physical attacks at the hands of Androloc. Needless to say, it took considerable wrangling before reaching a shaky consensus. This time, negotiated guarantees were needed. The Big Pharma offer was sweetened with a sizable amount of cash that distracted attention away from Pharma’s covert plans to own the Dreamscape technology outright. Pharma’s logic was simple – owning a threat was better than fighting against one. How far down that path would the research team go before recognizing wolves in sheep’s clothing?
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REVIEW –
5/5 ⭐ | Beyond Dreamscape Conspiracy (Book 2 of Dreamscape Conspiracy) by Gary G. Wise
On the heels of disaster and catastrophe to their lab and Dream Weaver research in “Dreamscape Conspiracy,” the second book in the Dreamscape Conspiracy series picks up where devastation left off.
As Dr. Cara Williams’ team works to rebuild the Dreamscape technology, Dream Weaver project, and dream mapping research, several new characters are brought into the mix, including the excitable and charming Zach Hightower. However, despite the rebuilding and excitement around Dreamscape 3.0, Cara and the team are also faced with more trained assassins as they struggle to fight the violence, and the body count continues to stack up. This second book ramps up the action, thrills, and suspense as Big Pharma seemingly takes on a new role in the progress and development of the Dream Weaver project. Author Gary G. Wise gives readers romance, action, conspiracy, technology, and futuristic applications that electrify and inspire.
Dr. Cara Williams and Russell Carter remain pulled by their dark pasts as they desperately work to overcome the persistent obstacles they face on their way to success and healing. Giving readers characters we can root for and others we remain wary of, one can’t help but feel like a member of the team as they fight to get the project back on track in this, “Beyond Dreamscape Conspiracy.”
The exhilarating and groundbreaking research continues in this follow-up, book two of Dreamscape Conspiracy. Russ continues to be a strong and ever-present member of the group as Dr. Cara Williams becomes increasingly vulnerable and resilient to the hardships being faced. Wise pens a riveting second book.
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