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Dark Matter

2016 | Fiction & Poetry

From Blake Crouch, the author of the bestselling Wayward Pines trilogy, Dark Matter is a New York Times bestselling tale that is at once sweeping and intimate, mind-bendingly strange and profoundly human - a relentlessly surprising thriller about choices, paths not taken, and how far we'll go to claim the lives we dream of. 'Are you happy in your life?' Those are the last words Jason Dessen hears before the masked abductor knocks him unconscious. Before he wakes to find himself strapped to a gurney, surrounded by strangers in hazmat suits. Before the 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 physics professor, but a celebrated genius who has achieved something remarkable. Something impossible. Is it this world or the other that's the dream? And even if the home he remembers is real, how can Jason possibly make it back to the family he loves?

The answers lie in a journey more wondrous and horrifying than anything he could've imagined - one that will force him to confront the darkest parts of himself even as he battles a terrifying, seemingly unbeatable foe.



Published by Pan Macmillan

Edition Unknown
ISBN 9781447297567
Language English
Edition Hardcover
ISBN 9781101904220
Language English

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Dark Matter Reviews & Ratings (30)
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Erika (17789 KP) rated

Mar 23, 2019 (Updated Mar 23, 2019)  
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Dark Matter
Blake Crouch | 2016 | Fiction & Poetry
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When I began this book, I really liked it. What an opening, it was immediately intriguing. I was hooked, then as I went on, it became completely predictable. Almost as though, well, I could have written the book. I liked the concept, but I nearly stopped reading. BUT, I'm glad I did, because it was a good resolution to the novel. Of course, it ended the way you thought it would. I still liked it, and am rating it so high because I loved the beginning and the end.

This would make a super cool movie, and my butt would definitely be in the seat to watch it.
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Sep 3, 2017 (Updated Sep 3, 2017)  
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ClareR (5817 KP) rated

Apr 11, 2018  
Dark Matter
Dark Matter
Blake Crouch | 2016 | Fiction & Poetry
Unputdownable!!
I read this in one sitting: I was a captive audience, stuck on a train for a 6 hour journey. Honestly though, I would have found it very hard to drag myself away from it if I'd read it at home as well. It's such a rollercoaster of a story and i wouldn't be at all surprised if it's optioned for a movie (is it yet?). It's probably mainly about 'the road not taken', and how we make life choices that we then feel stuck with. But what a way to do it!
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Michelle Dockery recommended (curated)

 
Dark Matter
Dark Matter
Blake Crouch | 2016 | Fiction & Poetry

"This thriller is among the most exciting novels I have read recently. I read it in two days. It really gets you thinking about the idea that there are other versions of ourselves who took a different path. Blake also wrote the original novellas of my TNT show, “Good Behavior.”"

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