Dark Matter

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It's all plot with not much character development, but the plot is quite a doozy that makes you want to keep reading. Some of the science behind it made my head spin, especially the last act twist that I did not expect. Even after it was explained twice, I still didn't fully understand, but went with it anyway. The writing style is very similar to Chuck Palahniuk with very short sentences and paragraphs, but it does help with driving the story along. I loved the idea behind it, which reminded me of the show "Sliders" but then it went off in another direction. At the end of the second act, I was about to give up on it because it was becoming more and more depressing, but it finally gave way to the third act with a crazy twist. I would love to see this as a movie. I hear there is one being made and I think it would be so much fun to watch on the screen.

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If your favorite books are those that you don’t want to put down, that keep you up at night, read DARK MATTER. Even if you are not normally a science fiction fan but do love thrillers, read DARK MATTER. This excellent novel presents happily married Jason who has a son and a job as a professor at a small college. He sometimes wonders what his life would have been like if he had taken a different path 15 years ago when he married his wife, Daniela. Don’t many of us wonder the same thing, how the road not taken might have changed things for us? Jason got an answer to that question. DARK MATTER is Stephen Kingish. Some of his books do not have monsters or clowns but are about normal people who find themselves in extraordinary circumstances. DARK MATTER is like those. Or maybe Crouch should not be compared to King. Crouch is not a new author. He wrote the WAYWARD PINES trilogy, the basis for the TV series of the same name. But I did not read it; Crouch was new to me, so I was pleasantly surprised at how much I liked DARK MATTER. I won this book through librarything.com.