Well this fancy little mindfluff was certainly something that I didn’t see coming.
Why did I pick it up? – Well, if you know me at all you will know that I cannot let everyone have all of the fun, I saw this book being read, reviewed and enjoyed all over the place…..That was my queue to jump into that madness, and what a ride it was!
Jason has a great life, he is married to the woman of his dreams Daniela, and they have a fantastic 15 year old son Charlie.
Did his life go the way he planned it? Not really, he didn’t see himself as a Physics Professor at a college, and his wife Daniela didn’t see herself giving up her budding art career to be a housewife, but they are happy with the choices they made, I mean who ever manages to get there ultimate dream?
Jason pops out one evening, to quickly say congratulations to his buddy at a bar as he has just won a prestigious award, Daniela tells him that dinner will be ready for him when he comes back, and to grab some Ice cream for her. He does exactly that.
Except he gets back to the car, only to be held up by a masked gunman, who makes him drive at gunpoint to the middle of nowhere, just before he promptly bonks him on the head, the man asks him “Are you happy with your life?”
After eventually waking up with a sore head, Jason finds he can’t move, looking around he finds that he is strapped to a gurney, surrounded by people in hazmat suits, asking where he is, he is told “Welcome back, my friend.”
Jason doesn’t understand what is going on, he tries his best to get back to his wife and child, but the thing is, he was never married to Daniela, and Charlie was never born, even stranger than that, Jason is a celebrated genius who was the person to discover the impossible!
🎧🎧 – Narrated by Jon Lindstrom, this crazy clever little Sci-Fi book had me sitting on the edge of my seat multiple times.
About the book
Dark Matter
By: Blake Crouch
Narrated by: Jon Lindstrom
Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 11-08-16
Language: English
Publisher: Pan Macmillan Publishers Ltd.
“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. From the author of the bestselling Wayward Pines trilogy, Dark Matter is a brilliantly plotted tale that is at once sweeping and intimate, mind-bendingly strange and profoundly human—a relentlessly surprising science-fiction thriller about choices, paths not taken, and how far we’ll go to claim the lives we dream of.
May all of your dreams come true!
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Vicci
I loved this book! Glad it worked out for you, too, Vicci.
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Thanks Jonetta, It was a fab read, i was on the edge of my seat for most of it lol
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I recently read this too(and liked it)! I think it must have made a better audio book than it was to just plain read, because of the pace ☺️
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Yes the audio was fab, I think it would also make a great TV series, i can imagine someone like Netflix grabbing this one
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Definitely!!😀
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I LOVED Black Matter! Really want to read it again now…
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Glad you loved it Kelly, it really was a fab read, I really enjoyed it
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Great review Vicci. I loved Dark Matter. I got lost with the Wayward Pines books but this is one of my favorites. Have a great weekend!
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Second review of this one that I’ve read today. Both of you seemed to like it!
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This book was NUTS! I loved it. And I thought the audiobook was great too. I’m so glad I did the audio version. I’m not sure I would have made it through a hard copy.
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Yes i think i probably would have struggled to keep up with a hard copy
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