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beckiebookworm1974 's review for:
Narcosis Room
by Louise Cypress
So "Narcosis Room" is a standalone Young-Adult: Mystery and suspense novel.
My first experience with this particular author and one that for the most part was a positive one.
This was a clean YA read told from multiple POV's: Mostly Ellie but also some from Dean and Cole too.
I found this such an interesting concept and idea especially considering though fiction this had some loose base in factual reality.
The idea that you can sleep away treatments and trauma while someone basically fixes and reprograms your brain and body almost like an unconscious miracle cure that doesn't impact harshly on the patients overall well being and state of mind: well It really does sound too good to be true, doesn't it?
This also poses ethical questions and the dilemma between how far do you go to get that perfect physique and lifestyle.
When all you need to do is go to sleep for a time and awake fluent in French or an expert on literature the self-serving possibilities with this sort of treatment are endless.
Then on the other end of the spectrum to be able to sleep threw invasive painful surgery.
For Ellie's experience with Narcosis, this was almost a "Total Recall" meets that old Katie Holmes film from the nineties "Disturbing Behaviour" where her parents are also striving for some unreal idea of perfection in their daughter.
I also thought that Ellie's mums own personal life experiences had definitely impacted her decision making and choices in the negative in regards to dealing with her daughter's behaviour.
So Ellie in the second half of this seemed to understandably do a complete turnaround in her behaviour and general attitude: though I could one hundred percent see why this was it still didn't stop me wanting to give her a big kick up the backside and tell her to pull up her big girl pants and just deal already.
So it becomes obvious that Ellie's parents are keeping big secrets from her and as Ellie and her friends begin to delve deeper this did a 160 on me and changed directions again.
This goes so much deeper than what's visible on the surface and even though I did find certain aspects of the finale here a trifle farfetched and improbable I still very much enjoyed myself here.
Narcosis Room was such an imaginative endeavour and a really easy read.
I voluntary reviewed a copy of Narcosis Room.
All opinions expressed are entirely my own.
Reviewed By Beckie Bookworm
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