Dark Matter is not my usual type of read. It’s Sci-Fi, which I don’t normally go for. BUT, last year I read so many good reviews that, when I saw it at the library, I decided it was worth a try.
It starts in the present, the here and now, with Jason Dessen helping his wife, Daniela, and son, Charlie, make dinner. It’s their Thursday night tradition and he is happy. Life is good, not what he might have thought it would have been when he was younger, but right where he wants to be.
Then, breaking with tradition, Daniela persuades him to go and meet a friend for a drink. That’s when it all starts going a bit – more than a bit – wrong as he is followed home in the dark and forced to drive to a remote location, where he is given a pill that will change his life.