⭐⭐⭐⭐ out of 5
If you've read any of my other more recent book reviews, you'll already have seen that I start the first paragraph of in the same way, by saying that every book I read and review, starts off with the full support of 5 stars and I'm always hopeful that they will all still be firmly in place by the time I close the back cover. You'll also know that I'm not shy about removing stars and that trademark and copyright are the usual reason for removing a star from an otherwise 5 star book. I've rapidly replaced a star twice when there's been a magic little sentence either right at the start or right at the end of the book and I'm more than happy to do it again if that sentence is there.
Let's get going with the reading and reviewing, shall we?
It's a relatively short book at only 169 pages and it sounds like it could be a bit of a sad book too, but I'm hoping it'll give me an insight into what people are going through when they make the choice to have an assisted death.
The first chapter has introduced me to Ruedi and I'm already enjoying it after only one chapter... one question though, do they use francs in Switzerland instead of Euros? I though it was only the French who used francs before the Euro was introduced!
I'm up to chapter 3 at page 16 and I'm really enjoying it so far. It'll break my heart before the end though, 'cos I'm already starting to feel heartbroken for some of the characters!
Time for lunch before I start sobbing my heart out uncontrollably now I think.
Back now and I'm intending to read one more chapter before I stop for my physio then I'll spend the rest of the afternoon reading until I head to bed.
Up to chapter 4 and the next chapters seem to sound like an emotional rollercoaster, so I'm gonna stop there and let my lunch go down a bit before I start sobbing. This is a truly incredible book so far and I've only read 19 pages!
I'm starting to get to know two of the characters through chapter 4 but I'm gonna stop commenting on every chapter otherwise this book will never get read and this review will never end! Only the bigger points I want to make starting from now.
Up to chapter 21 now and the huge paragraphs of italics is very hard to read and kinda takes some of the pleasure out of what I'm trying to read... still five stars, but only just now.
There have been potential brand name mentions that I'm not sure of, so that and the blocks of italics mean that the first star is heart-breakingly coming off at chapter 21.
Just finished reading and I'm in floods of tears, but it was a perfect ending to a pretty-much perfect book. One of those "shoulda been 5 stars" books again.
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