Recursion

Blake Crouch is a brilliant author with a terrific writing brain.

I was waiting for Recursion to go off the rails on multiple occasions, ready to scoff and yell my no-ways, but somehow it pulls it all together and makes the most outlandish scenarios seem realistic and even plausible.

Those implausibilities often destroy books for me but here he ingeniously gets away with it.

There’s no time travel or parallel worlds that you can jump back into, wrap around or repeat like Groundhog Day, Inception, The Tomorrow War, or use your imagination, but Recursion does just that, keeps on recalling and regurgitating and moving forward with the plot to discover how it all turns out.

It's not always the most gripping read because of the way it jumps between the two main characters, but the thought that went into this book is stellar!

There’s a wonderful human element as you get to know Barry and Helena and how their lives intertwine with each other and their personal timelines. Family ties and friends are not always easy IRL but probably the most important possession we have, and Recursion does a great job of reminding you of that.

> Why am I here?

> Could I do any better if I had another chance, or multiple chances?

> Might I mess it all up anyway?

These are the sort of repercussive and retrospective questions thay make this a great book.

In less skilled hands this novel could have gone <u>really really wrong</u>, so with this and with <b>Dark Matter</b> I’m really happy with my investment into the world of Blake Crouch and will be hunting down more of his work.