The Anesthesia Game


Fiction - Womens
364 Pages
Reviewed on 09/30/2015
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Reviewed by Chris Fischer for Readers' Favorite

Wow! Have you ever read a book and really, really wanted to meet the author, simply because you'd love to find out exactly how their mind works? Well, that's definitely how I felt when I read The Anesthesia Game, the new work by author Rea Nolan Martin. Follow the story of teenaged Sydney, her mother, Mitsy, Aunt Hannah and her mother's psychic, Pandora, as they are dealing with Sydney's life-threatening disease. While Sydney has to undergo actual anesthesia to deal with her disease, each of the other women also take an 'anesthesia' of their own, although that anesthesia might be in the form of drugs, alcohol or their religious beliefs. Between all of them, they are struggling to find a way out of their own issues, and to especially get Sydney through her critical illness. Will they be able to do it? You'll need to read The Anesthesia Game to find out!

I so enjoyed this book. Author Rea Nolan Martin is a truly creative and visionary author, and I have to say, this storyline is unlike any other that I have found before. Coming from a person that does a lot of reading, this is truly a great find! Author Martin's character development, scene setting abilities and just plain excellent storytelling abilities make her work second to none! Any reader who enjoys creative fiction, stories with strong and interesting female characters, or just a great read would love The Anesthesia Game. I highly recommend this book, and I am very much looking forward to seeing what author Rea Nolan Martin has in store for her readers next. If it's anything like The Anesthesia Game, it will definitely be a book I won't want to miss!

Mary DeKok Blowers

An engaging young girl had a disease, unnamed by mutual agreement of her family, but her condition was dire. Her mother had checked out some time before, unable to handle the stress and grief of her only child’s imminent death. Her father was mostly absent, unable to deal with either of them. Enter Aunt Hannah, who doesn’t exactly have her own life in order, but has a scheme to extricate herself from catastrophic debt through an arrangement to care for Mitsy and Sydney for an extended period. Leaving her own family farm in the hands of her ex-husband, she traipses off to Connecticut to care for her sister and niece. She and Sydney are extremely close and the girl actually says once, “I wish you were my mother.” Unfortunately her mother heard it, which fuels the fire between Hannah and Mitsy.

Reading The Anesthesia Game by Rea Nolan Martin was an exciting surprise. Its title refers to a game Sydney plays to help her cope with her numerous hospitalizations. The many things I loved about it included the characters, the descriptions, the story line, and the interweaving of reality with the spirit world. This book was incredible and will appeal to readers of the Carlos Castaneda series about his apprenticeship as a sorcerer, and also those who liked Eat Pray Love. The Anesthesia Game is reminiscent of both these books, and you will fall in love with the characters as they rally around Sydney in the hope of saving her life. Lives are transformed in the process. New relationships are started, and old ones are renewed. Two new lives enter the picture, signifying hope, and one exits, providing a different type of hope. I will be looking for more from Rea Nolan Martin.