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# Recursion: A Novel

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Review: It’s intense, beautiful, and haunting in the best way. - Recursion by Blake Crouch completely blew me away. It’s one of those books that grabs your attention from the first chapter and doesn’t let go until the very last page. The story centers around a neuroscientist, Helena Smith, and a detective, Barry Sutton, whose lives collide after the discovery of a technology that allows people to relive and even alter their memories. What starts as a scientific breakthrough quickly turns into something terrifying as reality itself begins to fracture. The pacing is incredible. Every chapter leaves you wanting more, and the twists are so well done that I found myself gasping out loud a few times. It’s a perfect blend of science fiction, emotional storytelling, and psychological suspense. I loved how it made me think deeply about memory, time, and what makes our lives truly real. As a busy mom, I don’t get a ton of uninterrupted reading time, but this book had me sneaking in chapters whenever I could — during nap time, waiting in the pickup line, even before bed when I should have been sleeping. The writing is sharp and cinematic, and the emotional connection between the characters really stuck with me long after I finished it. If you liked Dark Matter or enjoy stories that play with time and reality while still having a strong emotional core, Recursion is absolutely worth reading. It’s intense, beautiful, and haunting in the best way.
Review: Thrilling and Mind-Bending Read - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ In looking for a change from my recent lighter reads, I happened upon this contemporary science fiction read because I was intrigued by the premise. A book about memory and a phenomenon called False Memory Syndrome. A book about losing memory, finding memory and a hope of controlling memory. The story centers on 2 characters, Barry and Helene, and the chapters flip between the two voices at different timelines. Barry is a New York cop, and Helene is a scientist. Helene’s mother is suffering from Alzheimers, and Helene dedicates herself to studying memory in an effort to develop technology that can help preserve memories. She has the best of intentions, yet once presented with the prospect of virtually unending funding, she hesitatingly accepts a proposal from an unnamed source in order to continue her work on the technology. There is such an insightful line Helene gives in the book: “What teachers and professors never told her was about the dark side of finding your purpose. The part where it consumes you. Where it becomes a destroyer of relationships and happiness. And still, she wouldn’t trade it. This is the only person she knows how to be.” As one might image, things don’t go as planned. The book is about the relationship between Barry and Helene, her discovery, the use of that discovery, the effects on the world from her discovery, and the way they seek to prevent further harm. Thankfully the author was adept at allowing the reader to develop enough of an understanding to track with the story without needing to understand all of the physics concepts. The book takes you on a fast-paced and tense journey through multiple years as they race through time and memories. I definitely recommend! “…perhaps there’s a reason our memories are kept hazy and out of focus. Maybe their abstraction serves as an anesthetic, a buffer protecting us from the agony of time and all that it steals and erases.” Barry from Recursion

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #2,792 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #6 in Technothrillers (Books) #42 in Science Fiction Adventures #112 in Suspense Thrillers |
| Customer Reviews | 4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars (37,242) |
| Dimensions  | 5.16 x 0.7 x 7.94 inches |
| Edition  | Reprint |
| ISBN-10  | 1524759791 |
| ISBN-13  | 978-1524759797 |
| Item Weight  | 8 ounces |
| Language  | English |
| Print length  | 336 pages |
| Publication date  | March 10, 2020 |
| Publisher  | Ballantine Books |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ It’s intense, beautiful, and haunting in the best way.
*by S***Y on November 10, 2025*

Recursion by Blake Crouch completely blew me away. It’s one of those books that grabs your attention from the first chapter and doesn’t let go until the very last page. The story centers around a neuroscientist, Helena Smith, and a detective, Barry Sutton, whose lives collide after the discovery of a technology that allows people to relive and even alter their memories. What starts as a scientific breakthrough quickly turns into something terrifying as reality itself begins to fracture. The pacing is incredible. Every chapter leaves you wanting more, and the twists are so well done that I found myself gasping out loud a few times. It’s a perfect blend of science fiction, emotional storytelling, and psychological suspense. I loved how it made me think deeply about memory, time, and what makes our lives truly real. As a busy mom, I don’t get a ton of uninterrupted reading time, but this book had me sneaking in chapters whenever I could — during nap time, waiting in the pickup line, even before bed when I should have been sleeping. The writing is sharp and cinematic, and the emotional connection between the characters really stuck with me long after I finished it. If you liked Dark Matter or enjoy stories that play with time and reality while still having a strong emotional core, Recursion is absolutely worth reading. It’s intense, beautiful, and haunting in the best way.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Thrilling and Mind-Bending Read
*by V***E on March 2, 2021*

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ In looking for a change from my recent lighter reads, I happened upon this contemporary science fiction read because I was intrigued by the premise. A book about memory and a phenomenon called False Memory Syndrome. A book about losing memory, finding memory and a hope of controlling memory. The story centers on 2 characters, Barry and Helene, and the chapters flip between the two voices at different timelines. Barry is a New York cop, and Helene is a scientist. Helene’s mother is suffering from Alzheimers, and Helene dedicates herself to studying memory in an effort to develop technology that can help preserve memories. She has the best of intentions, yet once presented with the prospect of virtually unending funding, she hesitatingly accepts a proposal from an unnamed source in order to continue her work on the technology. There is such an insightful line Helene gives in the book: “What teachers and professors never told her was about the dark side of finding your purpose. The part where it consumes you. Where it becomes a destroyer of relationships and happiness. And still, she wouldn’t trade it. This is the only person she knows how to be.” As one might image, things don’t go as planned. The book is about the relationship between Barry and Helene, her discovery, the use of that discovery, the effects on the world from her discovery, and the way they seek to prevent further harm. Thankfully the author was adept at allowing the reader to develop enough of an understanding to track with the story without needing to understand all of the physics concepts. The book takes you on a fast-paced and tense journey through multiple years as they race through time and memories. I definitely recommend! “…perhaps there’s a reason our memories are kept hazy and out of focus. Maybe their abstraction serves as an anesthetic, a buffer protecting us from the agony of time and all that it steals and erases.” Barry from Recursion

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A must read sci fi
*by A***N on October 27, 2025*

This book is a mystery, sci fi, thriller, and have some romance in it. It was so good that I was sucked into reading this. The way Crouch writes gravitates you into the story. The perspectives or Barry and Helena and the lives they live and what leads up to the main story line is amazing. It’s one of the books that I can’t give too much away or I will spoil it. At the end of the day it is an amazing read

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