Dark Matter by Blake CrouchMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
One of the joys of not being a scientist is that I can read a book like this without getting wrapped up in the reality of the science. Quantum physics as a field is something I can barely wrap my mind around, so I am not too concerned with plausibility when it comes to reading this kind of sci-fi. Besides, the take away here isn't really about the sci, or the fi, but instead the fact that we walk the earth as a million possibilities. We've all said "yes" or "no" at those forks in the road, and we live our lives, often in memory of the road not taken.
(Very mild abstract spoiler ahead....)
The narrative wore me down after a bit--I got tired of the multiverse, haha. However, just when I had no "ampules" left (that's about as much of a spoiler as I'll give), Crouch managed to reignite the story and illuminate his point. Sometimes we need to create a whole new world when our present one is too full of regrets and paths we did not choose.
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