Reviews
"The most helter-skelter, race-to-the-finish-line thriller you'll read all year, with a clever, mind-boggling final twist." -- The Guardian "Relatable and unnerving . . . makes its characters--and readers--wonder what life would have been like had they made different decisions." -- USA Today "A portal into other dimensions of reality . . . you'll gulp it down in one afternoon, or more likely one night." -- The New York Times Book Review "A mind-blowing sci-fi/suspense/love-story mash-up." -- Entertainment Weekly "A fast, tasty read with a killer twist. It's a whole bag of barbecue chips . . . just sitting there waiting for you to devour in one long rush." --NPR "A dazzling book . . . [with] a mind-bending premise, a head-spinning plot that's dialogue-driven and adrenaline-fueled, and a gut-wrenching climax that gave me goose bumps." -- Minneapolis Star-Tribune "Draws on questions and anxieties we all wrestle with in the dark hours . . . Crouch has invested [sci-fi motifs] with scientific plausibility, and more unusually, with emotional depth." --The Wall Street Journal "[A] mind-blowing speculative-science thriller that throws in an old-fashioned love story for good measure." --Fort Worth Star-Telegram "A pacy, action-driven SF thriller . . . terse prose, strong characterisation and clever twists make for a quick, smart, engrossing read." -- Financial Times "A high-tension thriller . . . always engaging and frequently moving. A strong piece of summertime get-away reading, perfect for those times when the mind wanders to contemplate an alternate reality of endless vacation." -- San Francisco Chronicle "A mind-bending odyssey of parallel worlds and causality [that] unfolds with all the suspense and strength of a more straightforward thriller, building up to a deliciously surreal climax...memorable and well-rounded characters add a big, beating heart to the tale." --New York Journal of Books "Brilliant. A book to remember. I think Blake Crouch just invented something new."-- Lee Child, New York Times bestselling author of the Jack Reacher series "Exceptional. An exciting, ingeniously plotted adventure about love, regret, and quantum superposition. It's been a long time since a novel sucked me in and kept me turning pages the way this one did."-- Andy Weir, New York Times bestselling author of The Martian "A masterful, truly original work of suspense. Crouch delivers laser-focused prose, a plot that melds science fiction and thriller to brilliant effect, and a touching, twisted love story that plays out in ways you'll never see coming. It all adds up to one hell of a ride." --Harlan Coben, New York Times bestselling author of The Stranger "Wow. I gulped down Dark Matter in one sitting and put it down awed and amazed by the ride. It's fast, smart, addictive--and the most creative, head-spinning novel I've read in ages. A truly remarkable thriller." --Tess Gerritsen, New York Times bestselling author of the Rizzoli & Isles series "A mind-bending thriller of the first order, not merely a rollicking entertainment but a provocative investigation into the nature of second chances, all of it wrapped in a genius sci-fi package. I dare you to put it down, because I sure couldn't." --Justin Cronin, New York Times bestselling author of the Passage Trilogy.
