Reviews tagging 'Grief'

Recursion by Blake Crouch

64 reviews

lilifane's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense 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? Yes

5.0

My favourite one! For me it's perfection.
I love love loooooooved everything about this and don't have any complaints whatsoever.
I even cried at the end. That's something I didn't expect from a book like this.
And woah, this felt like 5 books in one. At the end I was like "This all really happened in this one book?!" 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Confinement, Death, Gun violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide, Violence, Dementia, Grief, Death of parent, and Murder

Minor: Addiction, Drug use, Mass/school shootings, and Car accident

vicanarc_'s review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

2.75

This is a time travelling book
I wanna make it clear because it wasn't clear for me and had I known I wouldn't have picked it up (I hate time travelling) .
It's a bit repetitive, and some dynamics i didnt quite understand, but  despite that, it was enjoyable.

If you want something that's a bit like Steins;Gate, that's the book for you.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Suicide, Terminal illness, Dementia, Car accident, Suicide attempt, and Death of parent

Moderate: Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Grief, and Mass/school shootings

Minor: Rape

janeycanuck's review against another edition

dark 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

2.0

Sci-fi isn't my genre of choice and this just got too confusing to follow by the last 1/4. I do appreciate that Crouch makes the science accessible for the non-sci-fi fan - with both this & Dark Matter, I felt like I could follow the science and I'm not a science-y person.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Gun violence, Suicide, Violence, and Grief

Moderate: Drug abuse, Dementia, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Car accident

colleenward_'s review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

this book messed me up (4.5 rounded)
I had so many questions during the mid point of the book (probably bc BLAKE CROUCH)... but I loved that the ending felt ~complete~
I found the overall premise of this story to be super interesting! It felt very creative throughout, especially how things kept *almost* aligning but never quite making it. I would say to definitely experience this book in the way you best experience them (whether that be reading, listening, etc.), because there are some technical parts and explanations of the plot that can get confusing if you drift away!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Blood, Grief, Car accident, and Murder

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Violence, Dementia, Mass/school shootings, Suicide attempt, and Death of parent

Minor: Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexual assault, and Vomit