Dark Matter by Blake Crouch

“Are you happy with your life?”  Those are the last words Jason Dessen hears before the masked abductor knocks him unconscious.  Before he awakens to find himself strapped to a gurney, surrounded by strangers in hazmat suits. Before a man Jason’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.*


This book is not your typical parallel dimensions fiction novel where things border on fantasy. It is very realistic and is based on real scientific theories such as the Schrödinger's cat thought experiment. If you a fan of thrillers this is the book for you because it is fast paced and full of suspense. As the main character, Jason, navigates his strange new reality it was hard to imagine how a book like this could end with so many possibilities that lay before him. I have to say the ending was satisfying even though it did leave me questioning what could happen next.

Kelsey Fitzgerald
Library Assistant

Available at the Langley Adams Library
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