I might go as far as call him the Christopher Nolan of literature. The science seems to make sense (from the perspective of someone who got a D + in Physics) it never feels like Crouch is reaching with his theories or explanations. The stakes continue to rise as the characters’ reality literally crumbles… over and over.
Although a lot of what revolves around these characters could (by snobby losers) be dismissed as overtly cinematic and arguably mainstream this thriller is one of the most gripping, moving, and coherent epics you will read this year. At the center of the plot is the aforementioned NYPD detective and Helena, a scientist who, motivated by her mother’s Alzheimer’s, devotes herself to research which involves mapping the human brain-memory. The beginning of Blake Crouch’s novel is undeniably cinematic, as is the whole story. …I’m sure you can guess what happens next. Barry tries to relate to Ann’s emptiness, confiding in her the fact that he lost a daughter years earlier. The woman, Ann is suffering from a worldwide pandemic known as False Memory Syndrome (FMS)-a condition where the infected remember whole other lives that they supposedly never had. Barry is a detective with the NYPD, attempting to talk a woman out of jumping from the top of the Poe Building and to her death (obviously). The book begins on November 2, 2018, and follows protagonist Barry. Like the climb to the top of a track, Recursion is a story of building momentum. Exhilarating, panic-inducing, “OMG did I tell my mom I loved her this morning” madness.Īllow me to backpedal. Scratch that the ride contains fewer bumps and more of the type of sudden drops experienced on a roller-coaster that has no business allowing four-foot-tall children to experience it. That’s the advice I would give to anyone about to read Blake Crouch’s newest novel, Recursion. Strap in and get comfortable-it’s going to be a bumpy ride. A not-so-book-review book review aimed to inform the world of the glorious ride that is Recursion (and its future with *our Lord and savior* Netflix). If that article was to have matured, wrinkled and become the middle-aged version of its relatively naïve self, it would be this article. I wrote an article earlier this year about how Netflix was adapting Blake Crouch’s yet-to-be-released novel Recursion my only familiarity with Blake Crouch at that time was his Wayward Pines Trilogy and his novel, Dark Matter-the cake-hole blowing, mind-bender about a man desperately navigating the multiverse in order to return home to his family. Probably because it’s the heart-palpitating summer read you’ve (or at least I’ve) been waiting for.
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