Recursion - Blake Crouch

Sci-Fi/Thriller

Rating: 9.5/10

Mind. Blown. This tightrope of a novel accomplishes one of the things that I love the most in my reading but is also rare. It plucks you up from the humdrum banality of your day to day life and drops you smack into a big ol world of what the f*ck is happening and where the f&ck am I? I fluctuated between wanting to devour this book like a whorish glutton on the clock and savor it like a well-bred lady. I found a happy medium.

What if you could get a do over? Live a portion of your life for a second time? Sounds like a dream, right? Well that it is, at least until it’s not.

Our main character, a cop, stumbles into someone suffering from False Memory Syndrome. A condition where your memory of an entire alternate life is absolute. Along the way he meets the scientist behind the technology that causes this.

Footnote: If you need a literary wakeup call this is it! The authors innovation in world building in almost unprecedented, even in my voracious reading life. Dare I say he is up there with Stephen King? For his last book and this one, I would say so!