Do you ever wonder if your life could be different? Like maybe if you made alternate choices your life could be totally different. You could be richer or poorer or even no longer on this earth. Dark Matter by Blake Crouch is a novel that examines how life’s choices changed everything for Jason Dessen.
Jason Dessen is living a pretty ordinary life, he is married to his amazing wife Daneila and has a teenage son named Charlie. Every day he goes to work as a physics professor at Lakemont College. However, he always wonders if he could have kept up with his physics research where he would be now. Then one night after leaving the bar, Jason gets kidnapped by a guy in a geisha mask. All of a sudden he is forced to strip naked, is drugged and put into a box that takes him to another world. He wakes up strapped to a gurney, surrounded by strangers in hazmat suits. This is when Jason embarks on a mission to not only discover what happened to him but also to find a way to return to his family in his world.
Typically, I am not one enjoy books that involve alternate realities and science fiction. However, this book was chosen for me through the RW book club. I am so glad this book was picked for me because the minute I picked this book up I could not put it down. The writing was so captivating along with the storyline. Crouch had me guessing throughout the entire novel and every one of my guesses was completely wrong which made it even better. There is literally nothing I could say negative about this novel. I may even now read more science fiction books and not make generalizations about the entire genre.
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