I haven’t read a fiction book in quite some time, so I was looking to mix something into the sequence. Fortunately, my friend Cole was visiting from LA a few weeks ago and tagged along for my B&N journey where he told me that Dark Matter was his favorite book from 2025.
I was in no position to be very opinionated given how few fiction books I’ve read, so I went ahead and bought it so we could continue with our day.
I’ve decided to keep with the bullet point structure from my last review, so here it goes:
- After finishing this book, I realized that I really need to mix more fiction into my rotation. This was an absolute page turner that I looked forward to picking up. Once the context had been settled in, the book became such an easy read.
- I can’t discern if this is due to the frequency with which I read fiction books or if this was a result of the writing itself, but it took me some time to immerse myself into the plot. However, once my mindset shifted, that feeling entirely disappeared.
- When I got to the last page, I was disappointed that the book was over. There were enough twists in the plot that I cannot say this was at all predictable, but I also don’t feel like the plot was quite over with where the author left things off. I don’t watch too much TV (approximately zero), but I’m inclined to watch the TV series based on this book to see how well it portrays the book.
- The book felt like it was possibly overweighted on Jason’s thoughts. Obviously, this was written from the first-person perspective so that’s unavoidable, but I felt like other characters such as Amanda were fairly important but had little introductory context and no follow up after leaving the plot (I really want to know what happened to her!).
- Though not related to the book itself, finding out the author went to UNC was unexpected yet neat!
Rating: 5/5