Book #73 of 2026: Fully Loaded by Blake Crouch [Note: I’ve seen some listings of this book under the title Fully Loaded Thrillers, but that seems to be a misreading of the cover. The inside material at the front of the ebook gives the two-word name for it.] This story collection reads like vintage Stephen …
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Book #64 of 2023: Pines by Blake Crouch (Wayward Pines #1) I picked up this 2012 novel on the strength of author Blake Crouch’s later sci-fi thrillers like Dark Matter and Recursion, but this earlier effort isn’t really in the same league. It’s long on vibes but short on story, and although I haven’t seen …
Book #129 of 2022: Upgrade by Blake Crouch Unfortunately the weakest and least mind-bending of author Blake Crouch’s recent string of sci-fi thrillers. The premise here of gene-editing increasing a person’s intelligence to superhuman levels is too straightforwardly similar to so many other stories, from Flowers for Algernon to the movie Limitless to the Ted …
Book #154 of 2019: Recursion by Blake Crouch At the start of this inventive sci-fi thriller, a New York City cop investigates a case of people suddenly remembering alternate lives they’ve never lived, while a tech genius a decade earlier researches a way to digitally record and retrieve the failing memories of Alzheimer’s patients. Author …
Book #109 of 2017: Dark Matter by Blake Crouch This science-fiction novel is like It’s a Wonderful Life, if George Bailey had ended up in that alternate reality without a wife and children because the version of himself there kidnapped him at gunpoint and forced him to switch places. The other version of our hero …
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