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Dark Matter by Blake Crouch

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Snowstorms, and zombies, and time travel, oh my! I requested Dark Matter from my local library shortly after reading Recursion. Once again, Blake Crouch did not disappoint. Crouch turned It’s a Wonderful Life into a science fiction thriller. The action and suspense felt so real, it left me sweaty. Every time I thought I had it figured out, a new twist would appear. Dark Matter is one of those books you do not want to read before bed, because you may not be able to put it down. While walking […]

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Recursion by Blake Crouch

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I discovered Blake Crouch in the Book of the Month Club, where I saw his books featured in the “Members Most Loved” category. Once I dug into Recursion, I immediately saw why. Crouch writes books that are smart, twisty, and feature fully-developed characters, creating a trifecta that leaves the reader wanting more. I don’t normally lean toward science-fiction, but Crouch has almost single-handedly made me a fan of the genre. In Recursion, a mysterious phenomenon begins to pop-up throughout the population that causes its victims […]

Barry Sutton pulls over into the fire lane at the main entrance of the Poe building, an Art Deco tower glowing white in the illumination of its exterior sconces.

Recursion by Blake Crouch

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A pretty good novel that plays around with a concept early that seems like it’s going to be fruitful, but then abandons it for way too familiar territory. In addition to all that, the writing is overwrought in ways that are unsuited to book, and this book is sometimes peopled with incredibly flat, and irritatingly unthinking characters. So we begin with Barry Sutton, an NYPD robbery detective, being first on the scene of a would be suicide attempt. He tries to talk the woman down […]

Thirty five hundred at Saks-Fifth Avenue.

Good Behavior by Blake Crouch

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This collection of stories that would become the tv show starring Michelle Dockery is pretty bad. Sometimes the plotting is bad, sometimes the writing is bad, and sometimes the overall presentation of the story is bad. So the collection itself is three relatively short novellas or regular to medium length short stories that tell the story of Letty Dobesh, a professional thief (especially pickpocket) who has addiction issues (meth). In the first story she is robbing a hotel room via a master keycard when she […]

Samantha’s hand were still red from the cold, the skin over her knuckles taut and dry.

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Forward by Blake Crouch

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Mostly I got this collection because I was interested in some short stories for walks and I like the mix of authors in general. Blake Crouch tells us in the intro/outro to each story the basic purpose of the collection, and like all such genre anthologies, it’s a mixed bag. The audio productions are really good with Evan Rachel Wood, Jason Isaacs, Rosa Salazar, David Harbour, Steven Strait, and Janina Gavankar are the readers of these stories. Each come in around an hour and all […]



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