You will root for him to lose, because he deserves it. Then the next 40% or so is that meme where a cartoon dog is drinking coffee in a burning room and saying, 'This is fine.' You will not be able to relate to the idiot of a protagonist. This goes on in Dark Matter until the 44% mark, I know because I noted it. Now imagine if Bill Murray couldn't figure out he was repeating the same day over and over again, even given the overwhelming amount of evidence. To avoid spoilers, imagine Groundhog Day. The most grievous sin of this book is the physicist protagonist is so dumb that he should be nowhere without a chaperone. Honestly, just get Where the Hell is Tesla? by Rob Dircks. 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.įrom the author of the best-selling 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. And Jason is not an ordinary college physics professor but a celebrated genius who has achieved something remarkable. In this world he's woken up to, Jason's life is not the one he knows. When he was provided with the opportunity to become part of an arctic expedition in the capacity of a communications expert by a team of elite graduates of Oxbridge then he was convinced to join them.Those are the last words Jason Dessen hears before the masked abductor knocks him unconscious.īefore he awakens to find himself strapped to a gurney, surrounded by strangers in hazmat suits.īefore a man Jason's never met smiles down at him and says, 'Welcome back, my friend.'

He also longed to employ his training as a wireless operator instead of working for his dead-end job. His shoes had worn through and he just couldn’t afford to heat his rented room. That was the time when Jack Miller ran out of options. The story of this novel is set in January 1937.

It was told in the first person and that made it a very compelling listen for the audience, where accents and tonal quality were brilliant. The audio narration of the Dark Matter novel is done by Jeremy Northam. Among her most prominent books, you will find Wolf Brother and Thin Air novels of the author. He is mainly known for her Chronicles of Ancient Darkness which is a historical fantasy series. She is a British author of children’s and adult novels.

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