Review: Dark Matter

Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Dark Matter is a very imaginative and different science fiction book. And you should read it – as soon as you can! Now with that done, let us get to the rest of the review.

Jason Dessen is a professor in Chicago. He has a good life with a wife (Daniela) and son (Charlie) he dearly loves. There have been choices he had to make, and so also his wife. They had go slow on their own careers for making the family work. They are at peace with it over time.
One evening Jason is off to a party arranged by his friend Ryan Holder who has just won an award. And as he leaves the place, he is grabbed, beaten and dragged to an unknown place. And very soon he finds himself in a place he has never been before. Nothing seems to make sense – while people recognize him, he doesn’t and seems not to understand what is going on.

That is as far as I can go without spoilers in my review.

The book packs tremendous pace, and you just wish to go on reading. The science/physics is decent for the plot to make the story credible and interesting. What also adds to the charm is the subtle philosophical inserts in the story – we all have to make our choices, and live with the consequences.

At the end, I had a feeling that just maybe the last 10 pages could have been different. And yet, it was the most logical way to end the book.

It is long since I read a book as fast paced and engrossing as this. A must read!

After you have read the book, you might just like to take a look at a short story I wrote over 4 years back "The Intersect" https://echoroot.blogspot.in/2013/10/....


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