Thank you NetGalley and Adele O'Neill for the chance to read this book before it hits shelves later this month. I enjoyed this book, I liked how it counted down to the day of the death. Like it told you the story from every ones POV. I didn't care for the husband at first but he came around and grew on me.

Kelly & Kennedy #3

Jennifer Buckley is terminally ill. Her husband had left her two years ago to go and live with another woman. Jennifer has motor neuron disease. She has told everybody that she will commit suicide when the time is right. She asks her husband if he will move back into the family home for the sake of their two children. Liam agrees. But teo days after he had moved back in, Jenny is dead and Liam is charged with her murder.

This story is certainly dysfunctional. The timeline is all over the place. The book starts just after Jennifer had died. The third part of the book is about the trial. The story is told from several points of view. There was quite a lot of repetition in the dialogue. My heart went out to Jennifer when had to live with motor neuron disease. There are parts of this book didn't necessary need to be there. If that had been the case I would have given this book another star.

I would like to thank NetGalley, Aria and the author adele O'Neill for my ARC in exchange for an honest review.

DNFed at 30%. I was expecting a thriller but this book reminded me more of a family drama and it couldn't keep my attention.
It's a well written book but it wasn't my cup of tea.
Many thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for this ARC, all opinions are mine.

This was a completely different story than I thought after reading the synopsis and requesting on Net Galley. I was expecting a psychological thriller but instead it’s more of a family drama about life, love and loss. Interesting read but I am not the targeted reader for this type of novel although the cover implies that I am.

Good premise but the story dipped in parts for my liking and was not consistent all the way through. The storyline became predictable about two thirds of the way through so the ending was an anticlimax. Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for the chance to review it.

A fantastic mystery story. I loved it. Very well written and twisty. Thoroughly enjoyed this and would recommend to everyone x

When The Time Comes is a story of a woman dying from a motor neuron disease and her sudden mysterious death. I found the book to be short on detail and without any real suspense. The plot is good but the delivery doesn’t have a lot of flair. It has decent characters and the book touches on each character but it isn’t integrated. The first part about Louise and Kelly doesn’t have anything to do with the story line. I thought the book would be about them but it then changes direction. A good attempt but sadly just an alright book. Thank you to Net Galley for the opportunity to read this book.

The timeline of the story moving back and forwards was confusing and I found it quite predictable. Only two stars for this one . I'm afraid

I’d like to thank Aria and NetGalley for giving me the opportunity to read ‘When The Time Comes’ by Adele O’Neill in exchange for my honest and unbiased review.

Jenny Buckley has motor neurone disease and asks her estranged husband Liam to move back into the family home to care for their two teenage children Abbie and Josh. The following day Jenny is found dead in her bed. DS Louise Kennedy of Blackrock Garda interviews Liam who says he wasn’t involved, but if he didn’t assist Jenny to end her life who did? Liam thinks it’s suicide and Louise is convinced it’s murder, but who’s right?

‘When The Time Comes’ handles the topic of assisted suicide in a caring and compassionate manner and although I wouldn’t class it as a thriller it was definitely a mystery as I was on tenterhooks as the investigation unearthed what actually happened on the day Jenny died. The characters are convincing and likeable, and I found myself growing in warmth towards Abbie and Josh who are struggling to cope with the loss of their mother. I had a lump in my throat as I read the last few pages which I thought was a perfectly fitting tribute to Jenny. I found this novel to be compulsive reading and I can unreservedly recommend it.

Thank you to Aria Fiction and NetGalley for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

The premise of this book intrigued me, and I was eager to see how the controversial issue of euthanasia would be dealt with, within the framework of a thriller. Well - it wasn't addressed at all. Nor was it really a thriller, and the investigation side of things got short shrift, with just a few brief mentions of those type of activities.

The story focussed strongly on the family dynamics, both within the family which lost their mother/wife, and the family of the police officer that initially was contacted - whose sister was living together with the dead woman's husband, and whose partner was an investigator for the law firm working on the defense of the dead woman's husband. Sounds complicated, and it reads complicated too, not too mention a lot of repetitive wooden dialogue, and timeline jumps back and forth. The last third of the book is the trial of the dead woman's husband (Wait, what? When did he get arrested?), told from shifting POVs, but here again the book skips back and forth to 3/2/1 days before the death.

Goodreads review posted here (direct link not possible): https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3027255774

The central storyline gets buried under all these incidentals, and I found my attention wandering and my will to live - or rather my will to keep reading - waning. The ending was anticlimatic, as it was clear early on what happened and "whodunnit".

This is a story about a family. The father meets another women falls in love and moves out. The mother get sick with a fatal condition and asks her husband to move back in for the children when she is so ill she can't be the parent teenagers need. 2 days later the mother is dead. Is it suicide or murder? This was a good story. Every page made me want to find out more. The author kept me entertained and it was some what mysterious. The story was kind of obvious toward the end and the ending wasn't spectacular but it was all in all a good story.

An easy, interesting, comprehensive read! “When The Time Comes” kept my attention and kept me questioning. I enjoy mysteries that leave clues for the reader to pick up on throughout the story and come together for a fair twist.
Some of the dialogue and details were a bit belabored, only a fault because I’d have rather read more about other facets of the characters lives (particularly Jenny, past and present).
I enjoyed the presentation of the timeline which added suspense and curiosity. I also enjoy in depth characters that are neither entirely villainous or perfect, but align to the reality of human nature. Great read!

This book wasn’t for me I’m afraid . I found it extremely far fetched and could the sister of somebody who had been killed really interview suspects!?

What a great book. Would definitely recommend to it others I no. Great work will look out for this author again

Jenny Buckley has motor neurone disease. She has stated publicly that she will commit suicide when the time is right. Her husband moved out two years earlier and began an affair with another woman. Now that Jenny is sick, she has asked him to move back into the family home for the sake of the children. He does. Two days later, Jenny is dead and Liam is being charged with murder - assisting at a suicide is considered murder.
I didn’t think the moving back and forth in time did anything for the story. It was rather confusing. But I enjoyed Jenny’s character and actually the story as a whole. It was well written. - a little wordy in places but enjoyable non the less.
Thanks to NetGalley for this arc in exchange for an honest review

Overall, I felt this was a really good book. The idea of assisted suicide is a hot topic and a lot of people are interested in it. The first half of the book held my attention but then it lost me a bit. I wouldn’t necessarily label it as a thriller - maybe contemporary fiction?

This was a book with a poignant and sensitive storyline but sadly the characters were not sturdy enough for me. I just never quite felt that I had connected with them fully.

However the storyline and subject matter was excellent. If the characters were more engaging for me this would have been a winner.

This is definitely worth a read though, as not everyone invest so heavily in characters like I do! There are quite a few 5 star reviews so give it a go

Thank you Aira and NetGalley.

This book was fast paced. Hard to put down. It flowed well and it was very well written. It caught hold of me and had me hooked from the start . I was literally on the edge of my seat reading this book.

I loved the blurb for this novel and it didn’t disappoint. Well researched and believable, I enjoyed it . Thanks for the chance to review it.

When Liam Buckley left his wife Jenny and their two children for his lover, he had no idea that Jenny would be diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease shortly after. Known as the 1000 day disease due to the average time from diagnosis to death, Jenny is now nearing that figure. Outspoken about her desire to have the choice to end her own life when the time comes, Jenny nevertheless requires help around the house, and the two decide it would be best if Liam moved back in to help care for their children. But when Jenny is found dead with an empty syringe just two days after Liam moves back in, the finger of suspicion is pointed directly at Liam. Did jenny take her own life...or did Liam want to take back his own?

I loved the premise of this novel, and was interested to see how the author would tackle the controversial issue of euthanasia within the confines of a thriller, but it wasn't tackled at all really except for people repeatedly stipulating that Jenny wanted to be able to make that choice for herself.

The timeline was all over the map, which I found hard to get grips with. We start off just after Jenny has died, then there's lots of exposition and character introduction...and then out of nowhere we hear that Liam has been charged with the murder (though we don't actually see this take place, which I felt was a bit of a strange decision after the author had invested so much time developing the characters and the plot up to that point) and then we skip forward to the start of the trial, at which point we almost immediately skip back again to three days before Jenny's death. 

I do enjoy a split narrative but there were so many narrators in this one that it felt like overkill - Jenny, Liam, Abbie, Josh, Alex, Louise - not enough time was spent with any one of the characters to feel sufficiently interested or invested in them, and time is spent on each of them on various plots that have nothing to do with the main story, such as Louise's miscarriage, which just takes the reader away from the central storyline. It just felt unnecessary, especially as she then ended up being an almost redundant character and not the investigating officer she was initially billed as. I think the story would have been stronger with just two narrators, my attention felt like it was stretched a bit too thin. 

The dialogue could definitely have done with an edit as well -there was a lot of unnecessary conversation and repetition. There is one conversation in particular, after Alex and Louise have been to a yoga class, that is almost painfully dull. The story as a whole could have been fleshed out a lot more - a lot of it fell very flat, particularly in the second half of the book, which was very repetitive with a lot of scenes running on and on with very little happening other than a single point being laboured. 

Ultimately this one fell short for me. It was a very average thriller with cardboard characters, and one I'm not likely to remember. 

Thank you to NetGalley for providing me with a free ARC copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.