The Tuning Chamber by M Maloney

About the Book:

A disgraced FBI profiler. A brilliant neuroscientist. One impossible chance to stop the destruction of free will.

Three years after a classified case destroyed her career, Erin Leland has sworn never to look back. But when her niece vanishes from Stanford, the trail leads to a secret neuroscience project, a mysterious symbol, and the Tuning Chamber.
Lily isn't just another missing student. Her extraordinary brain makes her the perfect anchor for the Cascade—a terrifying experiment designed to synchronize thousands of minds into a single engineered consciousness.

Neuroscientist Dustin Vale helped create the technology. Now he knows the horrifying truth behind it. To stop the Cascade, he'll have to destroy everything he built—and sacrifice everything he has left.

A gripping psychological techno-thriller about conspiracy, identity, and the terrifying cost of rewriting the human mind.

My Review:

Being human is a complicated and messy business. One experiences conflicting desires, frustrated plans, unorganized thoughts, uncontrolled periods of rage. What if one could experience a therapy that would align brain activity, regulating emotional responses? What if brains experiencing PTSD could be fixed?

Maloney has created a mad scientist who has developed a means for neural synchronization, leveling out the brain to achieve regulation. Synchronizing human brains to an external source would certainly make the world a better place, or would it? Is controlling the emotional responses of humans the answer or would it actually destroy that which makes humans who they are? The mad scientist only needs the perfect brain to further her work and she finds it in Lilly.

Part of this novel is dual time, giving us information from the past as to how the program was developed. There is quite a bit of science jargon presented to get us up to speed. The current period sees Erin, Lilly's aunt, race against time to free Lilly from an experiment that could go horribly wrong. Those who like science fiction enveloped in a thriller will enjoy this novel.

My rating: 4/5 stars..

About the Author:

M. Maloney is the pseudonym of a prolific author and writing coach.

Ubiquitous Press, 302 pages

I received a complimentary digital copy of this book through BookSirens. My comments are an independent review.

(My star ratings: 5-An exceptional book, 4-Better than average, relevant and liked by me, 3-It is average, 2-It is below average and not liked by me, 1-It is practically unreadable.)