Synopsis from Goodreads:
Evan's job is to help people die.
Evan is a nurse - a suicide assistant. His job is legal - just. He's the one at the hospital who hands out the last drink to those who ask for it.
Evan's friends don't know what he does during the day. His mother, Viv,
doesn't know what he's up to at night. And his supervisor suspects there may be
trouble ahead.
As he helps one patient after another die, Evan pushes against the
limits of the law - and his own morality. And with Viv increasingly unwell, his
love life complicated, to say the least, Evan begins to wonder who might be
there for him, when the time comes.
My review:
I
have finished this book three days ago and I still don’t really know what I think.
I know I enjoyed it, but it’s the subject that has my head spinning.
Euthanasia
is a brave subject for any author and I feel that this book does it justice by
covering all emotional and physical sides to assisted death. Evan moves in to
the department as an assistant and realises quickly that he in his eyes there
is not such think as a silent witness. When he makes a snap decision to lend a
helping hand to one of his patients rather than stand quietly in the corner, he
is forced to leave the department and look for work satisfaction elsewhere.
Evan’s
experience then changes to assisting patients that would not qualify for
euthanasia in the legal way and that’s where he sees the ugly side to death.
Amongst
all this, his own mother Viv’s health deteriorates until he is faced with a
decision that would most certainly change his life forever.
I
had real sympathy for Evan. He was alone at times nobody should be alone. In
three way relationship with an established couple, he never feels like he could
truly admit his line of work. His own mother pushes him away and Evan kind of
looks like a spare wheel throughout the book.
It’s
an interesting one. This novel opens up questions in your mind about your own
morals and thoughts on how you would like to be treated when it’s your time. It
does bring a question anyone other than you is entitled to decide how and when you
die.
Thank
you to the author, the publisher and NetGalley for access to this great book in
return for an honest review.
My rating: 4/5
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