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A review by jackiesreadingjourney
Stay Awake by Megan Goldin
4.0
Stay Awake is about a young woman who wakes up each day with no memory of the last two years of her life. This story follows Liv, our main character with amnesia, and two police detectives after a murder is committed and all signs point to Liv. This is a dual POV suspense thriller following Liv's past memories, present day situation, and the investigation the detectives are leading.
This was an extremely interesting premise that had me absolutely hooked from the start. There were so many possibilities on who the killer was and I loved that. Often when I read whodunit murder mysteries there are only a handful of possible suspects, and you can kind of predict who it is from the start or middle. I didn't predict the killer until the very end, as the author clearly intended. Megan Goldin did an excellent job of keeping me on my toes and each chapter ended in such a gripping away. I love when there are constantly new revelations being made, and I loved the anxiety driven plot. I felt so anxious to find out who was the killer and what happened each chapter that I found myself reading faster and faster!
This was creepy and suspenseful and I loved it. I can't rate this five stars however, because I feel like there were some missed opportunities and that the big reveal for the killer was anticlimactic. There were some aspects that didn't make sense and were not answered. If this didn't have such a rushed ending and would have had a bit more of an interesting reveal I would have rated this five stars. Ultimately, what you should take from this review was that this book was exciting, interesting, suspenseful, and well written. I very much enjoyed this book and will be reading this author's older novels since this is my first one I have read by her.
Thank you so much Netgalley and St. Martin's Press for letting me read this ARC in exchange for my honest opinion! This will be released on 8/9/22!
This was an extremely interesting premise that had me absolutely hooked from the start. There were so many possibilities on who the killer was and I loved that. Often when I read whodunit murder mysteries there are only a handful of possible suspects, and you can kind of predict who it is from the start or middle. I didn't predict the killer until the very end, as the author clearly intended. Megan Goldin did an excellent job of keeping me on my toes and each chapter ended in such a gripping away. I love when there are constantly new revelations being made, and I loved the anxiety driven plot. I felt so anxious to find out who was the killer and what happened each chapter that I found myself reading faster and faster!
This was creepy and suspenseful and I loved it. I can't rate this five stars however, because I feel like there were some missed opportunities and that the big reveal for the killer was anticlimactic. There were some aspects that didn't make sense and were not answered. If this didn't have such a rushed ending and would have had a bit more of an interesting reveal I would have rated this five stars. Ultimately, what you should take from this review was that this book was exciting, interesting, suspenseful, and well written. I very much enjoyed this book and will be reading this author's older novels since this is my first one I have read by her.
Thank you so much Netgalley and St. Martin's Press for letting me read this ARC in exchange for my honest opinion! This will be released on 8/9/22!