Rage Room

Rage: at one time everyone feels that desire to let it all out and just smash, yell and scream your frustrations out. What is you had the chance to do just that in a setting that was created for everyone to vent, yell and get it all out? What is you had your own Rage Room?
The Rage Room starts with Sharps breaking and smashing everything in site until his time is up? Mistakes are made and he wants to go back in time to rethink his choices and fix it. But sometimes what you want is not what you get. The narrator for this book is Sharps Barkley who seems bent on having things his own way. A world that is not like ours today that is run by robots, consumerism, a strange form of religion and virtual data. Imagine food grown in labs and the weather controlled by satellites. The arts and culture are banned, and snow and rain have their place when the leader of their world, Millie says so along with her Mama. People live in free suburban McMansions and are deeply disturbed, concerned about material things and prescribed visits are given to rage rooms in order for the population to vent, scream, and get rid of anger caused by boredom, unhappiness, discontent and band aid fix that hide what the government has put in place.

Feminist hackers hope to restore Mother Nature since plants are banned and having one can get you deleted. The year is 2055 and things are different and the government is run by one person: Millie and of course her Mama as Sharps takes us on many journeys but first we get to learn about his life, his job, his friendship with Jazza, the wife he despises, the mother who sets him aside and wants him out of her life and his two children that suffer as a result.

As we get to know Sharps and the events that led him to destruction and taking things into his own hands, we realize that he does something that will haunt and change his direction in life but why relive it?
Going back in time Sharps is riddled with rules, medicines, apps and things imbedded in his mind, brain and body as he goes back to where it happened in the past and has to find some permanent release in the future.

Sharps is a pawn in an elaborate scheme to find out just what happens when a person is used and experimented with drugs, implants, thoughts, mind control and manipulated into thinking that events happened when they might not have. Anger is what fuels him and the truths he thinks are just what he is programmed to think. Going back and forth from the past to the future nothing takes hold, things go wrong, on his own in a high-tech future world that author Lisa de Nikolitis created. Why would anyone go back in time? Can he really fix his mistakes? The year is 2055 and the world is not the same as it has been taken over by Minnie. Everyone has implants, owning a pet is a crime, he is a salesman fearing going back to work and his anxiety issues take over in every situation throughout the novel. Manipulated, pitting him against those he thought cared for him, just who can he trust, what was real, what was created for him to believe?

Going back in time he had a team that he thought was there to protect him: Sting Ray Barb, Janelle/aka Noelle, his mother, Doctor Harvarth and events that would send shockwaves through him when the harsh realities were revealed. time travel was just a hypothesis that Minnie squashed but the doctor and his mother came across a largely redacted time travel hypothesis and had to get it out. He was their subject? He was their guinea pig, but his friend Jazza’s mother was the victim. Can you manipulate and create environments? Just what was implanted in the teeth that everyone had and what difficulties were faced when his own mother implanted and placed software in them which would upload a single individual’s life. False relationships, people recruited in his life to make him feel loved. A mother who had one purpose in mind that will shock you and him in the end? Kindnesses that manipulated situations, murders that he thought he committed did he really?

How would you like it if your life were on someone’s radar and your events and whole life tracked? The world is at war and the microchips placed will help to know where a person is, their mental and emotional status and physical status too getting ready for WWIII. How does Sharps react when his own mother tells him he helped them with what they were doing, increased their insights into human frailty, expectations, vulnerability and how all of those immeasurable and yet unavoidable elements  make or break the practical application of a hypothesis. They also learned what affects your memories, fears of one person will affect his perception of a given event and how that might differ from what really happened. He succeeded and you will not believe what he endured each time he goes back and forth in time. When all is said and done he is sent back to a world that is filthy, unsensitized and wondering if he were being sent home to his family and what he would find when he got there. But not all endings are what Sharps or you the reader would hope for or expect. Images that might be just virtually created, what was real, whose emotional attachments were provided and created to manipulate his feelings? Did he experience different timelines or was it really one with different iterations? Where does he wind up? Who really loves him? What is his destination? Sometimes what you expect is what you really wanted and yet was it? Did he get to go home? Was his wife alive? What about Jazza? What happened to Sharps? Would you like to live in the world that Lisa created? Would you like to let out your anger, break things and rid yourself of anything that harbors within you? If so take the trips back and forth in time with Sharps and enter at your own risk and : Welcome you are now in THE RAGE ROOM! Break Away!

Fran Lewis: Just reviews

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