Blake Crouch has outdone himself this time with DARK MATTER. I am kicking myself for letting this fantastic thrill ride sit on my shelf for a few weeks before reading. For those who have not read Crouch before, he is the imaginative creator of the WANDERING PINES trilogy and other dystopian stories with a scientific bent.
DARK MATTER is a ride through the multiverse. The beginning is disorienting with the main character, Jason, trying to find his way home if that is even possible. He is battered and cannot find his place in time. In the time he is familiar with he is married to a woman he loves deeply and they have a teenage son. He is a professor at a middle rate college and the last thing he remembers is going out for drinks with his old college roommate who has just one a prestigious award.
The reader begins to wonder if Jason is crazy, because nothing is as he remembers it. Soon he is being chased, the threat is real. What has he done? What does he know? He can't remember anything of substance. His old colleague recaptures him and tries to get information out of him by many appalling means. Jason is a man on the edge, trying to find his real reality and where his present tense lies. At the heart of it is his family and his ultimate desire to be reuinited with them. The truth is so mind bending that is difficult to fathom, but deliciously wicked that I don't want to give away any more for the reader.
Many thanks to the author, the publisher and NetGalley for providing this advance copy in exchange for an unbiased, honest review. This amazing book will be published on November 2, 2016. Do yourself a favor, pick it up!
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