Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

Recursion by Blake Crouch

174 reviews

akapaldo's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, War, and Child death

Minor: Suicide

acidicorchid's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

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

4.5

I don't even know where to starteith this. The beginning was good, immediately hooked me in, and I can't lie and say Blake Crouch's writing style isn't one I find super appealing. It's snappy in parts, descriptive in others, and always manages to draw me into the action. His takes on sci-fi concepts (time travel in this case) are super interesting because there's always a twist to them I'm not used to seeing.

This book, despite its more gripping start and final part, did struggle to hold my focus towards the middle (not uncommon for me with his books. They're good, they're  interesting, but something about getting from point a to point b is just not hitting with me). By the third part, though, I was back in. When I tell you some of these moments were jaw-dropping.... 

I also like how well balanced the dual POV is between the main characters. It's hard to pull off well, but for the most part the author makes it look almost easy. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Suicide

Moderate: Gun violence

jgrant512's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Death, Violence, and Car accident

nadiamasood's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark tense fast-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

5.0

This book lives up to its hype! It’s a relentlessly fast-paced and nerve-wracking time travel and alternate reality thriller that explores memories and identities.

Marcus Slade is the most memorable character for me. I think he’s the smartest of them all. 

There’s a lot to keep track of with the shifting timelines, and at some point, even feels exhausting, but I still enjoyed the book a lot. Plus points for the tender and touching moments in the book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Suicide, Genocide, and Violence

mykeyendres's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

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

5.0

Sci-fi but in today’s time. Not intergalactic other worldly. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Kidnapping, Mass/school shootings, Suicide attempt, Addiction, Dementia, Death of parent, and Suicide

ms_elchert's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Death, Violence, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Fire/Fire injury, Dementia, Suicide, Blood, and Chronic illness

ceruleanorchid's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Suicide, Child death, War, and Murder

Moderate: Drug use

Minor: Dementia and Alcoholism

jennaem27's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Grief, and Violence

Moderate: Dementia and Death of parent

Minor: Suicide and Mass/school shootings

noveltay's review against another edition

fast-paced

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

5.0

3rd book I’ve read by this author, and this one is by far the best. Page turner, exciting, sad, everything you want in a scifi about time traveling & multi universes. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Self harm, Suicide attempt, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Suicidal thoughts, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , War, Dementia, Grief, Panic attacks/disorders, Death of parent, Death, Car accident, and Suicide

cryptid_kt's review against another edition

This book had a lot of triggers for me.  I didn’t know this book would deal so much with suicide, and death of loved ones. Uncertain if I’ll come back to finish this one 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide and Grief