Recursion

Quit about halfway in.

I have read Dark Matter and I remember finding it fine, but not at all memorable, as I don't remember shit about it. Not the characters (there was a man... and a woman?), not the plot, not even the big concept behind it. Nothing.
This one is pretty much the same in that the characters don't really do much to me. I guess they are there and that's all I could be expecting from them, but this is supposed to be big and emotional. I should genuinely feel for them and go with them through some very challenging and personal events, but I'm just sitting here, going MEH.
The present tense doesn't help with it. I guess that ties into the mumbo jumbo about the past, the present and the future just not being a thing and stuff, but even spelled out that whole idea made me roll my eyes more than feel like it's very deep and such. The whole science part of the book made me feel like that, to be honest. Why? Because this book is fundamentally about time travel, explained through a bunch of nonsensical things.

The story happens to two people, in two times, an investigator and a scientist. Neither have that much of a unique voice, neither provokes too much empathy in me and with the investigator guy it's also pretty baffling as his story is that his daughter dies as a teenager, but he gets sent back and changes things. I get it, life is weird, it's emotionally taxing, but the way him and his wife who eventually figures stuff out just act almost... sad... PFFFT. I don't get it.

All in all, I didn't like this. It wasn't as exciting as I hoped, the science made no sense, the characters were extremely flat. The emotional load was nowhere to be found, the prose was meh. I just... I don't like this one much. Everyone else does, though, so there is that.