What if you could travel back in time, using memories, and create a different timeline? What memory would you go back to? How would it change the world? This book is INSANE, in the best way possible. I spent half of it wondering what the heck was happening and how it was happening, but also enjoying the confusion.

I wasn't a huge fan of my first Crouch book, Dark Matter, mostly because of the character of Jason Dessen. The idea behind Recursion is similar to Dark Matter, but it reads a lot less like a traditional thriller. Like in Dark Matter, there are alternate timelines, and someone is trying to get the main characters. But, the lines between what is right and wrong seem to be a lot more blurred throughout the entire book than they are in Dark Matter.

Despite the similarities to Dark Matter, Recursion is its own separate book and I think that is how I have such vastly different opinions of the two works. It certainly helped that Helena and Barry were sympathetic characters and I found myself rooting for them as the book went on. The story is bizarre, confusing, and wonderful, exploring something that I would not have even thought about before.