‘Recursion’ by Blake Crouch (C) Aishwary Mehta.
The story behind this photograph – As the Ayurveda says, consuming 2 Walnut kernels every day helps retain and maintain a healthy life of Brain and Memory cells. Thus, a nod to the book which is completely based on Alzheimer’s.
Author – Blake Crouch | Genre – Science Fiction, Mystery
Publishing House – Crown
Source – Purchased | ASIN – B07HDSHP7N
Published in – June 2019
Format – Kindle eBook | Pages – 336
Quote from the book I Liked –
‘The dimension of his grave frame the night sky.’ (Loc. – 4655)
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‘Perhaps there’s a reason our memories are kept hazy and out of focus. Maybe their abstraction serves as an anaesthetic, a buffer protecting us from the agony of time and all that it steals and erases.’ (Loc. – 1310)
Stars – 3 Stars
Plot Summary –
Memory makes reality. That’s what New York City 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.
Neuroscientist Helena Smith already understands the power of memory. It’s why she’s dedicated her life to creating a technology that will let us preserve the most precious moments of our pasts. 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?
About the Author –
Blake Crouch is a bestselling novelist and screenwriter. He is the author of the forthcoming novel, Dark Matter, for which he is writing the screenplay for Sony Pictures. His international-bestselling Wayward Pines trilogy was adapted into a television series for FOX, executive produced by M. Night Shyamalan, that was Summer 2015’s #1 show. With Chad Hodge, Crouch also created Good Behavior, the TNT television show starring Michelle Dockery based on his Letty Dobesh novellas. He has written more than a dozen novels that have been translated into over thirty languages and his short fiction has appeared in numerous publications including Ellery Queen and Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine. Crouch lives in Colorado with his family.
My Review –
After reading Dark Matter, one of the best Sci-Fi books by Blake Crouch, this book kept my hopes high. I was so excited to read another sci-fi by the same author and it turns out to be same. I mean really the same. The storyline of Recursion felt as though reading Dark Matter but with less fun. The story arc matches a lot with the previous book which made my hopes go down the drain. Though the concept on which this book is written is great, the story felt too same and was not expected as it turns out to be.
The story is about a scientist who wants to treat her ailing mother of Alzheimer’s by finding a way to somehow save her memories. But in her quest to do so, some wealthy sources funds her research but in return asks a favour in the disguise of their love for innovation. What she creates in her quest to treat Alzheimer’s is a Memory Chair. What this chair does is another Sci-Fi to read about but if you’ve gone through Dark Matter already, the story will resemble it a lot. Though the book is filled with a lot of knowledge, it felt a bit stretched in context to what it offers and felt repetitive at times. Apart from repetitiveness, the book is good to read once with hopes not too high.
What I liked – The concept of the book.
What could’ve been better – A bit more into connection for the reader.
Writing Style – Felt the same as Dark Matter.
21st BOOK of 2020 (145 books read overall)
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