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A review by reneedecoskey
Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
5.0
This had me hooked from the very beginning in a way where I was more focused on my work and procrastinating on generally everything less because I wanted to get those things out of the way and get back to this book. It took me 4 days to read, which is crazy fast for me. I read 200+ pages in one sitting to finish it. If more science fiction books were like this, I would probably enjoy the genre more. This was simply un-put-downable.
Jason Dessen makes the decision to skip out on his college roommate's celebration party -- Ryan has won an acclaimed award in the science fields -- in order to stay in with his wife Daniela and their son, Charlie, for their weekly Thursday night Family Night. But when he mentions Ryan's party, Daniela encourages him to go. After all, it's only right down the street at their local neighborhood bar. So he says he'll go have two drinks and be back in 45 minutes. They tell him to bring ice cream and off he goes.
When he gets to the bar and sees Ryan, he gets to thinking about the ways in which his life may have been different. If Daniela hadn't gotten pregnant 15 years ago, he wouldn't have to have made the decision of whether he was going to stay with her and be a father and give up his research, or if he was going to abandon his pregnant girlfriend and continue on to become an important scientist -- he could be the one winning the acclaimed "Pavia Prize" instead of Ryan.
On his way home, he decides to take the long route -- to enjoy the quietness in the city of Chicago at night and be alone with his thoughts -- but he quickly realizes that he's not alone. A man comes up behind him wearing a geisha mask and brandishing a gun and tells him to do exactly as he says. He never makes it back home.
But another version of him does.
This will have you thinking about the choices you make and the possibility of a multiverse (in which every choice exists as being made somewhere) and how to get back to that constant.
Well written, fast-paced, and smart. It reminded me a little bit of LOST in some aspects, and the only thing I'm sad about is that it's over and I don't know what I'm going to read next that will captivate me quite as much as this did. Great book.
Jason Dessen makes the decision to skip out on his college roommate's celebration party -- Ryan has won an acclaimed award in the science fields -- in order to stay in with his wife Daniela and their son, Charlie, for their weekly Thursday night Family Night. But when he mentions Ryan's party, Daniela encourages him to go. After all, it's only right down the street at their local neighborhood bar. So he says he'll go have two drinks and be back in 45 minutes. They tell him to bring ice cream and off he goes.
When he gets to the bar and sees Ryan, he gets to thinking about the ways in which his life may have been different. If Daniela hadn't gotten pregnant 15 years ago, he wouldn't have to have made the decision of whether he was going to stay with her and be a father and give up his research, or if he was going to abandon his pregnant girlfriend and continue on to become an important scientist -- he could be the one winning the acclaimed "Pavia Prize" instead of Ryan.
On his way home, he decides to take the long route -- to enjoy the quietness in the city of Chicago at night and be alone with his thoughts -- but he quickly realizes that he's not alone. A man comes up behind him wearing a geisha mask and brandishing a gun and tells him to do exactly as he says. He never makes it back home.
But another version of him does.
This will have you thinking about the choices you make and the possibility of a multiverse (in which every choice exists as being made somewhere) and how to get back to that constant.
Well written, fast-paced, and smart. It reminded me a little bit of LOST in some aspects, and the only thing I'm sad about is that it's over and I don't know what I'm going to read next that will captivate me quite as much as this did. Great book.