3.5
Yeah, I’m feeling pretty tripped out now.

I first heard of «Recursion» by Blake Crouch as a good book to read if you like the movie «Inception» by Christopher Nolan (one of my all time favorites). However, I’d had «Dark Matter» on my TBR for a long time and wanted to get that one first.

I’ll start by saying that although this story is described as surprising, I kept thinking that it is exactly what you would write when the topic is alternate realities. Blake Crouch did a good job, but yeah, I guess the enforced scientific phenomena just felt kind of basic/predictable, limiting my edge-of-the-seat excitement. That is, until the second half of the book which I finished in one sitting; here I definitely felt the goosebumps prickling. There were several themes which were interestingly discussed and contributed to the thrilling build-up/breakdown:

- Regret & the all-too-common «what if?» mindset
- The essence of individual identity
- Derailing sanity
- Paradoxical mindgames

This was a catchy thriller that will take you on a trip and will leave you questioning your existence:)