Dark Matter

"Dark Matter" by Blake Crouch is the type of book I would want to write but would dread to write!

This book is complicated, scientific, and brilliant.  I found myself racing through it more and more, but also wanting to pace myself so I have something to think about at work the next day.

What if every decision you made had hundreds, thousands, millions of other ways the decision could have been made.  And these multiple decisions spread out to create another universe, or multiverse, that another version of you lives in, dies in, so on.  Yea, like I said, complicated but oh so brilliant!

Main character Jason Dessen experiences one of these multiverse's first hand after being taken at gunpoint, drugged, and thrown into another Jason's world. In his regular life, Jason lives with his wife and son and is a professor.  A cozy life that wouldn't have been if not for his decision to stay and raise his child with Daniella instead of pursuing his idea's and inventions.  This other world he has been thrown into is the life of fame.  The life of his opposite.

I can't imagine the amount of research the author had to do for this book.  Whatever the effort though, the book was definitely worth it.

I'm hoping to one day get into Blake Crouch's "Wayward Pines" series.  Unfortunately, I did the dreaded *watched the show/movie* before reading the book.

Goodread link: Dark Matter