Dark Matter: A Novel

Starts out very strong. You are drawn in, and like the character and life he has created. Something horrible happens to him and he becomes a prisoner in a world similar to his but is not his. His escape is the low point in the story. It dragged on, and was not believable. Instead of stopping at this point I decided due to how strong the book started out I would scim read. Glad I stuck it out because from a little past the mid point it picks up again. It was an OK read.

This book was intriguing to me, and the synopsis really does not do any justice as to what the book is actually about. There are some parts that drag on quite a bit, but overall it was a decent read. It really gives you insight that sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason. I wouldn't so much call it a suspense or a thriller as much as a sci-fi really. By far not my favorite book, but it's worth a read.

It is a story that employs words like "quantum physics" and "Schrödinger's cat" to explain why a man is THE CENTER of his multiverse (or "maleverse"), everyone else especially his wife and kid exist for him, trapping a woman with a kid in a marriage is a "sacrifice" deliberately made by a man for "love", and it is because of that a man wants to dedicate more time to his wife and kid not because of he is simply incapable if he doesn't win Nobel Prize. It has a few unnecessary drinking and sex scenes at the beginning, then a lot of chase scenes, just like most TV/movie drama. It might help some readers to understand the meaning of human reproductive activities to most men in the world.