Dark Matter - Blake Crouch

Dark Matter

By Blake Crouch

  • Release Date: 2016-07-26
  • Genre: Mysteries & Thrillers
Score: 4.5
4.5
From 3,381 Ratings

Description

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OVER ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD! • NOW STREAMING ON APPLE TV+

A “mind-blowing” (Entertainment Weekly) speculative thriller about an ordinary man who awakens in a world inexplicably different from the reality he thought he knew—from the author of Upgrade, Recursion, and the Wayward Pines trilogy

“Are you happy with your life?”

Those are the last words Jason Dessen hears before the kidnapper knocks him unconscious. 

Before he awakens to find himself strapped to a gurney, surrounded by strangers in hazmat suits.

Before a man he’s never met smiles down at him and says, “Welcome back, my friend.”

In this world he’s woken up to, Jason’s life is not the one he knows. His wife is not his wife. His son was never born. And Jason is not an ordinary college professor but a celebrated genius who has achieved something remarkable. Something impossible.

Is it this life or the other that’s the dream? And even if the home he remembers is real, how will Jason make it back to the family he loves?

From the bestselling author Blake Crouch, Dark Matter is a mind-bending thriller about choices, paths not taken, and how far we’ll go to claim the lives we dream of.

Reviews

  • Take a Trip Through the Multiverse

    5
    By spider2367
    It was a SciFi thriller, a love story, and a reminder to step back and appreciate the life you are probably taking for granted. I actually teared up at the end and that hasn’t happened since The Only Good Indians.
  • phenomenal

    5
    By mixta007
    amazing story with all manner of existential dilemmas thrown in about identity, love, quantum entanglement, and all on a can’t catch your breath wild ride through infinity
  • LOVE!

    5
    By adip2017
    Full 5 here because this was just epic, no other words better describe it. I was impressed with every aspect of this novel. The premise really pushes you to think about life down to your smallest choices and those resulting effects and really what is scarier than that. This was so fun to read and the ending was just everything I wanted. 10/10 recommend!
  • Real fun ride with a unique and well-executed story

    5
    By filmguyryan
    This novel tears off from Page 1. You’re simply hanging on for the ride. It is legitimately one of those books that you cannot put down, flipping page by page until you realize that it is morning. The premise is unique and interesting, at least it was for me. This could’ve gone sideways fast with what amounts to a convoluted thought experiment, however the author manages to wrap some interesting characters and backstory around the riddle that is multiple parallel universes. All the while the reader is barreling toward the inevitable conclusion, one that you should’ve seen coming, but somehow were distracted from like sleight of hand.
  • Even better than the show!

    5
    By Steve Kansas
    Excellent read!
  • Read only the sample and I NEED MORE!

    4
    By Julia, The Great
    Exciting and packed with action. And that was only in the first 120 pages! I definitely plan on reading the book next & judging by the sample, I can already recommend! Brilliant!
  • Wow wow wow!

    5
    By mrs.muench
    This is the type of book that just sticks with you, hours and days after finishing. Imagining yourself in their shoes and dealing with multiverses! Definitely my favorite read so far this year!
  • Sci-fi meditation on choice

    5
    By Austin Bay
    A sci-fi meditation on how there's a multitude of choices that can lead to different paths in life.
  • ❤️

    5
    By sammy_1019
    My favorite book in the world 🥺 I will be thinking about it for a long time
  • Incredibly executed

    5
    By AliceChinny
    I literally read this in a couple days, couldn’t put it down. Compelling, strange, yet somehow relatable. I’m a sucker for all things parallel-universe and this didn’t disappoint. My new favorite book.