“Are you happy with your life?”
Those are the last words Jason Dessen hears before the masked abductor knocks him unconscious.
Before he awakens to find himself strapped to a gurney, surrounded by strangers in hazmat suits.
Before a man Jason’s never met smiles down at him and says, “Welcome back, my friend.”
In this world he’s woken up to, Jason’s life is not the one he knows. His wife is not his wife. His son was never born. And Jason is not an ordinary college physics professor, but a celebrated genius who has achieved something remarkable. Something impossible.
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.
This was quite a compelling read that explores really thought-provoking things. One night, Jason gets kidnapped and drugged. When he wakes up, he has a completely different life. No wife, no son, a completely different life. I don't want to spoil too much, because that would ruin the crazy mysterious experience of this story, and I don't want to do that. Because of that, I find it very hard to write a review, but I'm going to give it my best.
I mean, that is a question that will be able to keep my mind occupied for a while, because it is such a heavy kind of question. What makes you you? What is everything you know is taken away, then who are you?
I was hooked immediately and had trouble putting it down. This book is a true mindf*ck that will not be easy to forget.
Those are the last words Jason Dessen hears before the masked abductor knocks him unconscious.
Before he awakens to find himself strapped to a gurney, surrounded by strangers in hazmat suits.
Before a man Jason’s never met smiles down at him and says, “Welcome back, my friend.”
In this world he’s woken up to, Jason’s life is not the one he knows. His wife is not his wife. His son was never born. And Jason is not an ordinary college physics professor, but a celebrated genius who has achieved something remarkable. Something impossible.
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.
This was quite a compelling read that explores really thought-provoking things. One night, Jason gets kidnapped and drugged. When he wakes up, he has a completely different life. No wife, no son, a completely different life. I don't want to spoil too much, because that would ruin the crazy mysterious experience of this story, and I don't want to do that. Because of that, I find it very hard to write a review, but I'm going to give it my best.
“It's terrifying when you consider that every thought we have, every choice we could possibly make, creates a new world.”
This story is thrilling and horrifying, but it's very exciting. The deep philosophical questions it asks kept my mind occupied for the days that followed finishing the book. One of the things that kept my mind busy was the following:
“If you strip away all the trappings of personality and lifestyle, what are the core components that make me me?”
I mean, that is a question that will be able to keep my mind occupied for a while, because it is such a heavy kind of question. What makes you you? What is everything you know is taken away, then who are you?
I was hooked immediately and had trouble putting it down. This book is a true mindf*ck that will not be easy to forget.
“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.”
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