Mitchell Loughlin’s Reviews > Recursion > Status Update

5 attempts flow by and they are no closer to finding the solution. Despite her genius Helena can not break free of her beliefs and loses hope. Meanwhile in the minute of consciousness that Barry has at the end of each life he begins to peice it together. He remembers slade saying something that leads to him reaching out to his assistant as NYC is nuked that leads to them kidnapping slade that leads to…

The terroist attacks from occurring but they fail and she’s goes back to try again. They fail again this time being caught in a nuclear blast as other countries try to discourage the US from using the chair

Turns out hackers caught wind of what he was doing and mined all the information. This was sold online to other governments terroists and the like before eventually being put on wikipedia. She has to go back Marty. Way back. Back to her teenage years. I’m she finds Barry feeding him bits of info about the future until they fully fall in love and get married. They try to find a way to prevent the memories of…..

The military successfully saves a couple lives but nothing game changing. Helena is heading to “the office” in and underwater tunnel when the tunnel explodes. She and thousands of other people die. She recurrs in her apartment. The trump tower is bombed. She recurrs. The Hudson bridge is burned. She recurrs
Her “boss” tells her that the recently uncovered a data leak of slades and the chair plans are online

On to what is happening and demand that they use the chair for military applications



I feel like this book is doing a good job of keeping to the rules of time travel but every once in a while
Something happens that stretches it a little beyond belief

Helena is taken hostage by the government and learns that there is a secret agency that’s goal is to hoard “protect” advanced technology. They form a group whose goal is to stop especially horrible events from happening. They prevent a few murders, school shootings, etc and pick up some vitally status in the attempt to create a fear in the mind of would be criminals. Instead the big dawgs in the military catch

Marcus knows that they are coming for him so instead they try to go for the chair first. Again Barry is shot this time in the liver and Helena goes back once more. They manage to take out Marcus’s whole group but not the chair when a swat team headed by Gwen enters the situation and kills Barry.
We learn that Barry and Helena had a relationship in the original timeline and that she kind of loves him.

Helena and Barry plan for the next morning where they will assult hotel memory. The start by infiltrating the basement and using an old service stairwell to climb the floors but are hung up when a flashlight sweeps towards them in the light. They duck into a hallway and take a women hostage. Helena cuts her arm to”make a save point” and tells Barry they she just came back 15 mins and Barry had been shot

They hide back in her apartment and talk through what needs to happen. Really she is relating a plan they made together in the future. They can’t let the government get involved because someone will steal the chair so they need to end it themselves.

Meghan kills herself unable to live either the memories of non existence

Turns out he actually did it when he went back. The biggest in the New York skyline, big bend, two massive buildings that bend towards each other connecting at the top. The problem is that everyone in the city remembers it not being there. Everyone losses faith in their memories. Barry goes to storm the hotel when he is stopped by a Helena from the near future. They had cooked up a plan together to end it