Dark Matter

By Blake Crouch

I've spent quite a long time on this book. But not quite as long as deciding whether to publish a review of a book here that I did not like. This blog is supposed to be reflection on good reading material, for students, teachers, parents and generally everyone. Once people have read a few of the posts here I think they'll get a sense of the types of books I like, and if you tend to like the same sort of reading material I hope you'll stick around, or keep coming back (pick your metaphor).

But my question to myself is "Do I publish a review of a book I did not like?"

I am not going to waste time giving you a run down of why I didn't like. I read the blurb, thought the premise was interesting then was very disappointed with the style and tone the book had. I will still share the blurb, perhaps you can dwell on it for a moment and see what it was that perked my interest.

Synopsis

"Are you happy in your life?"

Those are the last words Jason Desson 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 the man he's never met smiles down at him and says, 'Welcome back.'
In this world he's woken up to, Jason's life in 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.

Author

Blake Crouch is best known for the Wayward Pines trilogy, which has sold more than a million copies, been translated into thirty languages, and adapted into a prime-time event series on FOX. He lives in Colorado.

Other books by the author

Pines
Wayward
The Last Town
Desert Places
Locked Doors
Break You
Stirred
Serial Killers Uncut
Run
Abandon
Snow Bound
Famous
Eerie
Draculas
The Pain of Others
Sunset Key
Grab
*69
Remaking
On the Good, Red Road
Shining Rock
The Meteorologist
Unconditional 
Perfect Little Town
Hunting Season
Fully Loaded
Thicker than Blood