Tell Me an Ending delves into the lives of five people who are connected by having been a patient at a memory-removal clinic in an alternate near-present future.

After a recent accident and subsequent time in the hospital, author Sidney Orr walks into a new stationary shop and purchases a blue Italian-made notebook. Something about the notebook calls to him and his inspiration to write returns when he takes pen to paper.

Here We Are is a enchantingly constructed tale with Swift moving in and out of a set timeline to deliver a mosaic of lives filled with love, loss, and illusion. Introducing the novel, we start with the flourish of Jack Robinson, waiting in the wings to begin the story.

Leah has returned home to her wife, Miri, after a deep-sea mission ends in disaster, but she's not the same. Something from the ocean depths has come back with her, altering their lives in strange ways.

Amid a Scottish summer's rainy backdrop of a day, Moss sets the stage with disparate groupings of strangers temporarily part of a reluctant lakeside vacation community. With the gloomy weather largely keeping them indoors and in their secluded cabins, ….

Falling by T. J. Newman was a fast-paced, intriguing suspense novel that reminded me heavily of the Harrison Ford (as Jack Ryan or the president) or Bruce Willis (Die Hard, etc.) movies from the 1990s.

As with any short story collection, some are winners and some are not. Same here, and this was actually my first foray into Saunders. So I do wonder….

Jay Gardiner, a seventeen-year-old estranged from his family, dives into the Pacific Ocean to locate his father's remains, hoping to ease the guilt of his suicide. A giant squid and a hungry sperm whale unexpectedly jeopardize his mission, trapping him inside the whale's belly.

Passersthrough delves into family dynamics, the strength and faultiness of memory, and that fragile line between life and death. If you like books with answers and endings, look elsewhere. This strangely lyrical mess of a book was thoughtful, gripping, and haunting with the feeling of spectral eyes overseeing every move.