The new thriller from Tierrasanta Bookstore, written by author Patrick Joseph Healy, combines familiar elements and tropes from time-looping sci-fi and post-apocalyptic fiction for a fresh experience of terror and exhilaration.
Please, Let Me Save You became available on Booksprout recently and received its first review on Goodreads shortly thereafter. Praising the engrossing characters for sucking them in, the reviewer compares the book to “an apocalypse Groundhog Day”. The book continues to build interest, with a recent increase of requests for advanced review copies on NetGalley.
Fans of Witty Narratives and Bleak Backdrops
Readers who enjoy Chuck Palahniuk’s wry and acerbic writing style will enjoy Please, Let Me Save You’s narrative. People who enjoyed books like Doomed or Damned will love the book’s close proximity to cataclysmic danger. Anyone who loved the dark magicalism of Lullaby and followed it’s characters on their bizarre journey will find themselves eager to know what happens next in the new book by Patrick Joseph Healy.
If someone picked up Zero Stars, Do Not Recommend from MJ Wassmer and loved a completely different way of experiencing the end of the world, that person will find Please, Let Me Save You to be another exciting exploration of the apocalypse.
Fans of Life-After-Death Fiction
People who raved about Over My Dead Body by Maz Evans will be excited to meet another character whose story continues even after dying. Please, Let Me Save You is another exploration of life after death, where post-life awareness is central to driving the story forward.
Much like The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton, Patrick Joseph Healy’s story also features characters who knowingly or unknowingly are experiencing the same events over and over again. Unable to escape the cycle of life and death, Please, Let Me Save You’s main character has to overcome his own destruction to save those he cares about.
My Murder, by Katie Williams, follows a character who is brought back to life after being murdered by a serial killer. Please, Let Me Save You begins with its main character dying in a nuclear explosion, only to find himself exactly where he was thirty minutes before the explosion.
Fans of Multiple Viewpoints in Apocalyptic Fiction
One of the things that made World War Z by Max Brooks so appealing was how the reader got to see the events from different places, points in time, and perspectives. Each chapter was fresh and fascinating, and compelled the story forward. Please, Let Me Save You features an agile narrative, witnessing the nuclear apocalypse through the eyes of different characters as they try to survive.
Fans of The Stand by Stephen King will appreciate a large cast of characters who come together meaningfully as the story continues. Set in 2020, elements of life during COVID also strike similar tones to the threat of “Captain Trips”. Readers who like to watch the world fall apart from the frontlines will find vivid descriptions of destruction and cataclysm in both books.
Fans of Alternate Realities and Multiple Dimensions
In Recursion, Blake Crouch’s characters are forced to question the nature of reality, particularly in how they perceive it versus how other people see it. Similarly, Please, Let Me Save You showcases a character who learns how to manipulate and confuse people’s memories to drive their actions and control their thoughts.
As with Crouch’s Dark Matter, the novel Please, Let Me Save You begins with the main character traveling to a new reality. But unlike in Dark Matter, the mechanism is death itself and rooted mystically in the main character, rather than being rooted in technology. Rather than jumping across the multiverse, the extra-dimensional travel in Please, Let Me Save You feels more like a time loop as the perspective travels from one reality to the next.
In The Possibilities by Yael Goldstein-Love, the main character has to use an extraordinary ability that allows her to access different versions of herself. In Please, Let Me Save You Brandon also has a mysterious ability to travel between his inter-dimensional selves, though rather than traveling directly to different alternate realities, Brandon is forced to experience each one sequentially throughout time.
About Please, Let Save You
The new thriller from Tierrasanta Bookstore and author Patrick Joseph Healy releases February 11th, 2025, and tells three interconnected stories about people trying to save those they love at the end of the world. It combines time-looping science fiction with family dramas and doomed lovers set against a nuclear apocalypse.
Find on:
Please, Let Me Save You is written by Patrick Joseph Healy. To directly request an advanced review copy or connect with the author, please contact us.
