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A review by abigail_lo
Stay Awake by Megan Goldin
3.0
2.5 stars
i mean, it was fine? it's kind of hard for me to have many opinions on this book, mostly because the ending was so terrible. i like the idea of amnesia in theory, but god was it frustrating to read about liv having the same realizations over and over again. i get it -- she has amnesia, and she forgets everything, which means she has to learn everything all over again, but do you really have to subject me to that every time she wakes up? and the plot twist was so strange, but not because it's an unexpected conclusion -- it was just so mundane? it's the kind of plot twist that's been done over and over again, and if i knew the plot was going to end up being this cliché, i probably would have called it from the beginning. but hey: at least now i know not to trust men.
thanks to st. martin's press & netgalley for the arc!
i mean, it was fine? it's kind of hard for me to have many opinions on this book, mostly because the ending was so terrible. i like the idea of amnesia in theory, but god was it frustrating to read about liv having the same realizations over and over again. i get it -- she has amnesia, and she forgets everything, which means she has to learn everything all over again, but do you really have to subject me to that every time she wakes up? and the plot twist was so strange, but not because it's an unexpected conclusion -- it was just so mundane? it's the kind of plot twist that's been done over and over again, and if i knew the plot was going to end up being this cliché, i probably would have called it from the beginning. but hey: at least now i know not to trust men.
thanks to st. martin's press & netgalley for the arc!