AUTHOR : Blake Crouch

OUTLINE : A man is abducted into an alternate reality where his life never existed as he knew it, forcing him to fight through shifting worlds to reclaim his true family and identity.

My Rating – 3.5/5,
Pages – 341,
First Published – 26, July 2016,
Language – English,
Genres – Science Fiction, Fiction, Thriller, Mystery, Mystery Thriller, Fantasy, Adult, Suspense

Story Snapshot (No Spoilers):

Blake Crouch delivers a sharp, mind-twisting thriller that grabs you from the first page and refuses to let go. Jason Dessen is an ordinary physics professor heading home on a cold Chicago night, dreaming of a quiet evening with his wife and son, when a single question shatters his reality: Are you happy with your life?

What follows is a terrifying plunge into a world that looks familiar but feels profoundly wrong. Jason wakes up to a life he doesn’t recognize, a version of himself who made very different choices and achieved the impossible, at the cost of everything he once loved. As he struggles to understand which life is real, the story turns into a breathless journey across shifting realities, driven by love, regret, and obsession.

Dark Matter is more than just a fast-paced science-fiction thriller; it’s a haunting exploration of choices, alternate paths, and the quiet question we all carry inside us: what if life had gone another way? Emotional, unsettling, and wildly addictive, this is a book that lingers long after the final page.

My Experience:

It is powered by solely my experience with book, zero sponsorship, zero bribe, not even a bookmark involved (forget about free copy of book).

Picked this after finding reviews on Amazon very amusing, indeed this is supposed to be. But not, at least for me. How can so many people miss judge, almost lost faith on online reviews.

The story kicked very nicely, and suddenly it moved to some hypothetical, unrealistic, and unbelievable turns and actions. That made me re-read few pages only to find if I missed something important. Let me be fair – I can’t blame the book for my experience. Knowing that it’s a sci-fic I had to be prepared for this meal, but I was not. Left with bitter taste in the end.

Anyway, Story is griping but once you know the idea of the book you can guess the ending and rest is up to you to continue or presume the book.

Without any spoiler, basic concept is: Dark Matter is the story of Jason Dessen, a mild-mannered college physics professor who gets abducted one night by a masked man, conked over the head, injected with some SCIENCE and wakes up in a world that is not his own.

Mr. Blake Crouch (@blakecrouch1), no offenses, its like I had expectations of The Dark Knight from Shazam !!!

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