Recursion by Blake Crouch

 

4 Stars | Black Crouch | 2019 | Science Fiction /Thriller | 336 pages

I needed to read something different and I picked this time travel thriller.  It is quite the ride and it was a page turner. It does get complicated as time travel tends to do, but I just ignored the parts that I couldn't quite figure out. I wonder if the author feels the same way when they write such imagined technical plot lines? 

This is a story of a woman who is a scientist and is trying to figure out a way to help her mother who has dementia get her memories back.  Turns out that other people are more interested in her research for villainous reasons. As a result of her experiments getting into the wrong hands, there is a epidemic of something called false memory syndrome happening to people. The results are often destructive as people are not able to cope. 

There are lots of different timelines going on in this book which you would expect from a time travel book. However, it was a great read and a good change of pace.