Reviews
"A mind-bending thriller." --USA Today "[Crouch] has sketched out the rules for a new reality. . . . [ Recursion ] has a thrumming pulse that moves beyond big ideas and into their effects on a larger, more complex world." --NPR "[ Recursion ] will keep you up all night--first because you can't stop reading it, and then because you can't stop thinking about it." -- BuzzFeed "[An] epic page-turner." -- Good Housekeeping "Quintessential SF . . . [features] wrenching emotional moments . . . tense and vivid action scenes . . . eminently rigorous and logical methodology and science . . . And yet you will not predict anything." -- Locus "[A] fantastic philosophical thriller [with] ingenious plotting, cinematic action and unflappable characters." --Minneapolis StarTribune "Recursion will leave you breathless as it dives headfirst into a strange reality." -- PopSugar "The fragile elements of time, identity, and memory intertwine in Crouch's unforgettable new sci-fi thriller. . . . A lightning-paced, techno-fantasy that lingers long after the last, mind-numbing page." -- SyFy Wire "The smartest, most surprising thriller of the summer." -- BookPage "Crouch isn't just a world-class thriller writer, he's a Philip K. Dick for the modern age. Recursion takes mind-twisting premises and embeds them in a deeply emotional story about time and loss and grief and most of all, the glory of the human heart." --Gregg Hurwitz, #1 internationally bestselling author of the Orphan X series "Blake Crouch has invented his own brand of page-turner--fearlessly genre-bending, consistently surprising, and determined to explode the boundaries of what a thriller can be." --Karin Slaughter, #1 internationally bestselling author of Pieces of Her "Brilliant. Crouch's innovative novels never fail to grip!" --Sarah Pekkanen, #1 New York Times bestselling co-author of The Wife Between Us and An Anonymous Girl "A masterful mind-bender of a novel. Crouch brilliantly infuses his story with dire repercussions and unexpected moral upheaval, and leaves you wondering what you would do if you had the chance to turn back the clock." --Mark Sullivan, #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of the Private series and author of Beneath a Scarlet Sky "Cutting-edge science drives this intelligent, mind-bending thriller. . . . Crouch effortlessly integrates sophisticated philosophical concepts--such as the relationship of human perceptions of what is real to actual reality--into a complex and engrossing plot. Michael Crichton's fans won't want to miss this one." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Completely engrossing . . . highly recommended, especially for readers who enjoy suspenseful, fast-moving, well-crafted, science-based SF." --Library Journal (starred review)
