Reviews tagging 'Fire/Fire injury'

Recursion by Blake Crouch

44 reviews

relliepi's review against another edition

challenging dark sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Suicide, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child death, Gore, Gun violence, Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, Dementia, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, Dysphoria, and War

Minor: Rape, Vomit, Mass/school shootings, and Car accident

_pauline's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No

3.5

I‘m glad I‘m not the only one who struggled to understand everything (judging by the other reviews)

I didn’t dislike it but I had higher hopes for it & it was just a lot of disaster & suffering (

esp towards the end, happening over & over again, getting worse each time

) + confusing at times

also

if everyone remembers everything - including US retaliation -, wouldn’t they stop dropping atomic bombs after a few times? or am I being too optimistic here

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Suicide, Fire/Fire injury, and War

Moderate: Terminal illness, Medical content, Dementia, Kidnapping, Car accident, Death of parent, and Murder

Minor: Cancer, Sexual content, and Mass/school shootings

nicoletiff's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-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? No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Dementia, Kidnapping, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

megancortez's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense fast-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? It's complicated

5.0

Balling my eyes out. It's like Christopher Nolan wrote a novel but it's a better story than any of his movies. Imaginative. Clever. Riveting. Enthralling. It is a mystery that goes everywhere you want a mystery to go - and then some.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Blood, Mass/school shootings, Car accident, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Drug abuse, Dementia, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and Alcohol

Minor: Child death and Sexual assault

bookwormdanii's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Self harm, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Murder

Moderate: Addiction, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Genocide, Gore, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Dementia, Mass/school shootings, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, and War

almostsweetmusic's review against another edition

adventurous fast-paced

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

3.5

Plot-driven time travel story that had a compelling premise and good execution. The last third of the book focuses on a romantic relationship that feels underdeveloped and I didn’t feel very emotionally attached to the characters. Still a worth while read if you enjoy time travel sci-fi.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Body horror, Blood, Dementia, Car accident, and Fire/Fire injury

elizafiedler's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective tense slow-paced

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

4.5

I made the mistake of listening to part of this book (the part where Barry loops back and forth with the most frequency, the most futile-feeling part) while stuck waiting and being ignored in the Apple store, surrounded by that sterile, sensory hellscape. Don't make a similar mistake. Listen to it in the open air; it gets existentially claustrophobic in parts. But still, it's an amazing, creative, and ultimately affirming book about human consciousness. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Suicide, Dementia, Grief, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Addiction, Confinement, Torture, Violence, Car accident, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury

liz_not_bennet's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense

4.5

Who would've thought that Recursion is a beautiful love story set in a horrendous loop of global catastrophy?
I usually shy away from anything to do with physics but Blake Crouch explores the topic of memories mostly in a philosophical way that I didn't mind the physical aspects even though they made my head hurt.
So many people are part of each others lives in a crucial way, them sharing the same memories and therefore being affected when one of those memories is altered. Weird how such a terrible thought experiment makes you feel closer to your fellow human beings.
Whether or not it was intended this book is also the story of a woman who has her intellect, her work, her dream and her freedom stolen again and again by men and is therefore a story of oppression. This was clear to me without it being on-the-nose.
Exceptional was also the weaving of parallels throughout the book, I found many connections between plot lines and characters only reinforcing this theme of togetherness.

SPOILER  SPOILER  SPOILER

My only question is:
Why didn't Slade remember the world ending in previous timelines and needed to be convinced of it??

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug use, Gun violence, Blood, and Grief

Moderate: Child death, Suicide, Dementia, Car accident, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Child abuse, Drug abuse, Mass/school shootings, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, and Murder

amyg677's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Suicide, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Fire/Fire injury, and War

flolyric's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Gore, Violence, and Grief

Moderate: Car accident

Minor: Suicide and Fire/Fire injury