Blake Crouch does it again!Barry Sutton is working as a New York City cop when he receives a call about a woman with False Memory Syndrome, ready to jump from a building. She is remembering a prior life that she never had. What will Barry discover in his investigation?Helena Smith is a neuroscientist working on a device that can preserve memories. She hopes to be able to save her ailing mother or at least record her memories before her mind deteriorates. Will she be successful and what is her co...

Oh gosh, I'm slightly shocked that I didn't love Recursion. I've been looking forward to this ever since I read Dark Matter, so to say I'm a bit disappointed is an understatement.(Note: As usual, this is a 100% spoiler-free review. However, I couldn't talk about the book without referencing some events in it, so I've very carefully spoiler-tagged everything. You are safe to proceed if you haven't read the book. Just don't click on the spoilers.)The premise is certainly intriguing enough. Detecti...

The past, the present, and the future walked into a bar. It was tense.That’s an editor’s joke and it always cracks me up; I love how clever it is. Well, with this book, the past, present, and future walked into my head, and it was tense, all right, but not a good tense. It was tense because I was friggin’ confused. And nothing about it cracked me up or made me think it was clever.Well, I lie. At the beginning I was all gung-ho. The opening scene is a killer—a likeable cop, Barry, is trying to ta...

Ticking away the moments that make up a dull dayFritter and waste the hours in an offhand way.Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home townWaiting for someone or something to show you the way.Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain.You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today.And then one day you find ten years have got behind you.No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun.Pink Floyd - TimeI am just going to say it – Blake Crouch is t...

Recursion has become the first sci-fi standalone to be included in my favorite shelves.As many readers probably did, my first experience with reading Crouch’s work was for Dark Matter. I was super impressed by it and after hearing that the author has a new sci-fi thriller that’s highly recommended for readers who loved Dark Matter gave me so much joy; it would be insane for me to not take a look at Recursion. Do note that taking a look at Crouch’s novel can be surmised as reading the novel non-s...

But what do you cling to, moment to moment, if memories can simply change. What, then, is real? Imagine you woke up one morning and discovered that your entire life - your job, your kids, your friends, all your experiences - wasn't real. It still feels real. You remember it vividly. But you also suddenly remember another life; your real life. And you are told that the life you remember is a result of FMS (False Memory Syndrome)-- an illusion created by your brain.I don't know about you, but t...

Congratulations for winning of best sci-fi category from goodreads choice awards 2020! This is one of my favorite books of the year! Five OMG I’m suffering from brain cells bleeding and explosion of my last standing grey cells, what the hell I just read and who am I ? stars!I know the drill but let me rephrase one more time! This is not an easy, soft, sunshine and rainbows reading! In my opinion people who are brave enough to dive into this journey should put themselves an IQ test and discover t...

me: *finishes reading any book by Blake Crouch*

me: hey what the fuck…..
me: [on the train] what the fuck…
me: [at dinner] what the fuck…
me: [trying to sleep] what the fuck….
me: [in the shower] what the fuck….
me: [breathing] whAt tHe FuCk

UPDATE: IT'S OUT!! Go read it so we can all gush about it!!(4.5) As always, Crouch knows how to keep you on your toes and does a great job at mixing thriller and sci-fi genre.A mysterious disease starts affecting people’s memory, giving them memories of a life they never lived. NYPD detective Barry Sutton is trying to investigated how the False Memory Syndrome is spreading and ultimately will come to face Helena Smith a neuroscientist who invented a device that’s changing the world.Recursion wil...

"Everything will look better in the morning. There will be hope again when the light returns. The despair is only an illusion, a trick the darkness plays."I'm convinced that Blake Crouch is THE science fiction/fantasy author of our time. You know, the one that readers pre-order their books without reading the description, the one that 50 years from now people are still talking about, dissecting his plot points and their dual meanings? Yeah, that's Crouch. If you don't agree, then that's ok, I'll...