Sundial

*4.5 stars. This book was tense, intense, dark and supremely twisted. What begins as horror-tinged suburban domestic fiction ends up being a sci-fi adjacent, horror thrill ride through the desert that is bizarre, awful and wonderfully disturbed. I don't often do trigger warnings, but feel they are appropriate here because Ward pushes boundaries and some can be shocking. So, trigger warnings for infidelity, mental illness, physical and psychological abuse, abuse of a child, death of a child, death of a loved one, animal abuse, animal death, substance abuse, extreme violence and self-harm.