Recursion by Blake Crouch | Expected publication: June 11th 2019 by Crown Publishing Group | 336 Pages | Goodreads
✅ REVIEW
An entertaining and engaging exploration of memory, time, and enduring love.
I picked up this book because I loved DARK MATTER by the same author. This story is as captivating as the previous book. It starts with Barry, a NY detective who is answering a distress call and heads to a building where a woman is about to commit suicide. She suffers from FMS or False Memory Syndrome, a disorder where victims have memories of a life they never lived.
From then on, Detective Barry starts investigating this case and what he finds out is a lot more complex than he thought possible.
I was absorbed by the story and the subject matter, it was interesting and stimulating. Highly recommend it.
Received ARC from the publisher via Netgalley
✅ PUBLISHER’S DESCRIPTION
“Memory makes reality.
That’s what NYC cop Barry Sutton is learning, as he investigates the devastating phenomenon the media has dubbed False Memory Syndrome—a mysterious affliction that drives its victims mad with memories of a life they never lived.
That’s what neuroscientist Helena Smith believes. It’s why she’s dedicated her life to creating a technology that will let us preserve our most precious memories. If she succeeds, anyone will be able to re-experience a first kiss, the birth of a child, the final moment with a dying parent.
As Barry searches for the truth, he comes face to face with an opponent more terrifying than any disease—a force that attacks not just our minds, but the very fabric of the past. And as its effects begin to unmake the world as we know it, only he and Helena, working together, will stand a chance at defeating it.
But how can they make a stand when reality itself is shifting and crumbling all around them?
At once a relentless pageturner and an intricate science-fiction puzzlebox about time, identity, and memory, Recursion is a thriller as only Blake Crouch could imagine it—and his most ambitious, mind-boggling, irresistible work to date.”
✅ BOOK SOURCE AND FORMAT
ARC, ebook
Fantastic review! I loved Dark Matter too! I guess I need to read this one!
I loved the concept behind this book, but had a lot of issues with it’s execution. I felt like the characters were a little flat, it got a bit repetitive and the middle of it just DRAGGED for me. But at the same time I’m glad I read it because it was mind bending and incredibly thought provoking. The ending was also pretty good. I have a lot of mixed feelings about this one. My full review will be up this week.