Reviews tagging 'Cursing'

Recursion by Blake Crouch

8 reviews

kristinj1's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective relaxing sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

I feel like this book just chased the idea even further than upgrade did, by the same author. They had a idea, and they kept impacting it and impacting it and impacting it. They went through truly every possible thing that could happen as a result of this new information. And it was terrifying. I feel like I was pretty connected to the main character, barry. Especially because he was a parent and had experienced the death of his child. And a divorce. The book was terrifying and fascinating. And also maybe totally expected, given that I feel like this technology would absolutely be used by governments to get ahead.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief, Cursing, Suicide, Gun violence, Violence, Child death, Dementia, War, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Blood, and Car accident

Minor: Dementia

s_melly's review against another edition

3.5

Really enjoyed this mind binding tale of time travel and ramifications! However, too much profanity took away from the fun for me.  Also, did not care for the female audio voice.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing

katiesbeengone's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dementia, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Suicide, and Genocide

Moderate: Murder, Self harm, Blood, Child death, Car accident, Torture, Violence, Death of parent, Cursing, and Grief

Minor: Drug use, Mass/school shootings, Kidnapping, Addiction, and Drug abuse

scottyreadsstuff's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

This novel certainly had an interesting concept, at least in the synopsis. But eventually it turned into a typical time-travel story. It was definitely entertaining, but not perfect or the most original in execution.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gore and Cursing

Minor: Suicide

dannythestreet's review against another edition

emotional mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, Self harm, Child death, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Suicidal thoughts, Kidnapping, Physical abuse, Car accident, Dementia, Death of parent, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Violence, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Grief, Gun violence, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Drug use, Blood, Body horror, Murder, Mental illness, Stalking, War, Addiction, Mass/school shootings, and Torture

Minor: Sexual content, Panic attacks/disorders, Pregnancy, and Cursing

hckilgour's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

So I’m not really sure I’d classify this as sci-fi. It’s much more sci-fi fantasy. Purely because killing yourself with a memory in mind doesn’t equate to time travel.

The initial section was quite boring honestly. Once it got into the time travel and alternate universes it was a quick read. The last two chapters they were just 50 pages of a POV were a little painful. Especially Barry’s. By like the third timeline I was over it and just like, save the world already.

The epilogue was… interesting. I liked the open ended need of the last line.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cursing

rachelunabridged's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Cursing, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Gun violence, Murder, Suicide, and Violence

Moderate: Child death and Vomit

thebooklifeofemilyrose's review against another edition

adventurous fast-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

What I liked:

• Multiple POVs
• Great character development—the Barry and Helena you meet in the first few pages isn’t nearly the same ones you encounter at the end.
• Fast paced with engaging writing
• The science aspect—I’m a huge science nerd and really enjoyed how there was an even balance of science and plot throughout.

What I didn’t like:

• Also the science aspect—at times I had to reread the same paragraphs a few times because I really wanted to make sense of the science Crouch was writing about. I’m not a physicist so who knows if anyone of it’s accurate, but I really wanted to be able to follow it and sometimes it felt a bit too dense (but it didn’t affect the plot).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Blood, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Mass/school shootings, Medical content, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Violence