Review: A difficult subject
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 08 17, 2011
This is a difficult subject for a novel as it includes euthanasia and disabilities. However the subjects are treated sympathetically. It starts with a journalist, whose grandmother is dying, wishing to write a story about the clinic where she has spent her last days. It is soon apparent that all may not be as it seems and the reader is left in doubt as to whether the clinic is trying to help people end their days peacefully or there is an ulterior motive and the story changes to more of a medical mystery with the central character trying to get to the bottom of what is going on. The story is fast paced and you get a real feel for the characters particularly with the journalist's disabled girlfriend. At the end a decision needs to be made and the reader is left to think which way the story is going to go. I think the story ends with this moral dilemma but there are enough strings left hanging for there to be as sequel, if there is, I will read it.