Blake Crouch's Dark Matter is a sci-fi novel that takes on the complex question of "What if?" Jason Dessen had the potential to be great, but he decided to settle down with his wife and son and become a physics professor instead. Until he is kidnapped one night by a masked man and knocked unconscious. When he wakes up, he is not a humble professor but a celebrated and award-winning scientist, he is not married and does not have a son. Everything that seems real is called into question and Jason must figure out how to get back to his family.
The best way I can describe this book is that it was trippy. Sometimes they would go a little to far into the science and I would be left confused, but I think it helped with the disorienting effect. I sympathized a lot with Jason, because while he did give up a lot for his family, it was a sacrifice he didn't regret making. Yet, nobody can blame him for wondering what if? What if he continued with his research or what if he had made the smallest different decision? It could change everything. I became so engaged in what would happen next because each chapter would step it up and mess with me even more.
This book is actually impossible to fully review because there could be so many spoilers and while the twists were oh so obvious, I did not see them coming at all. Maybe it's cause science is most definitely not my area of expertise, but the end just made so much sense as to, of course it had to come down to this.
A fantastic thrilling story on the lengths one would go to to reunite themselves with their love and a reminder that science is really quite terrifying. You do have to apply a little suspension of disbelief, so if you're not good at that, you might not like this book as so many people have. Just go with it and you'll find yourself loving it.
I would give Dark Matter 4 and a half stars, but rounded up to 5 cause I'm still so perplexed and a little dumbfounded.
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