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Stay Awake
by Megan Goldin
2.5 stars but not rounding up to 3
Liv can not remember anything about the past two years — including that her best friend and roommate, Amy, and her boyfriend, Marco were murdered. Or that she was almost killed. Or that she moved to England and met and got engaged to Ted Cole. Memento style, she has words written all over her hands and arms to remind her of things because every time she goes to sleep, she forgets the entire last two years.
She wakes up in a taxi — The book started out fun to read. Bu then liv kept repeating the same thing (deep distrust of cops — no really good explanation for it, but she says it often). Then on a bench in the train station. She keeps waking up and not being as shocked as someone who has absolutely no idea what’s going on would react in my opinion. People keep telling her things, like that she lives in a basement apartment and there are keys to the apartment with her name on it, and items in the apartment that are hers, but she refuses to believe she would live there because it’s so dingy. She also leaves helpful post it notes like “he’s coming for me “and “don’t trust anyone “. Why wouldn’t she write names? That’s be much more helpful.
Spoiler: Amy’s big-time surgeon boyfriend, Brett, killed Amy and Marco. I’m not even sure why, but I guess it’s because he found out that Amy and Marco were sleeping together?
The book skips back-and-forth between two years ago and present, and 24 hours ago. The present chapters have timestamps on them, and they’re all out of order so if Something Happens at 5:53 PM and then you’re reading about some thing that happened at 3:04 PM — it’s very confusing. Throw in 24 hours earlier or two years earlier and you practically have to draw a timeline.
The cops have these little nuggets of wisdom
“An ugly gash under his rib cage suggested the murder weapon was sharp object of some sort, probably a knife”
There’s an entire page of unnecessary information about Halliday’s military friend and all the stuff he went through and why she runs a marathon in his name. His name is never mentioned again once in the book.
“ Do we know what kind of knife was used? The perp took the murder weapon”, Lavelle said. “ well there you go “Roscoe added. “ A perp so attached to his blade he can’t bear to leave it behind. It adds fuel to the theory that the perp was a killer for hire “. WHAT?! Sure, most murder weapons are left for the cops to find easily….right.
Liv can not remember anything about the past two years — including that her best friend and roommate, Amy, and her boyfriend, Marco were murdered. Or that she was almost killed. Or that she moved to England and met and got engaged to Ted Cole. Memento style, she has words written all over her hands and arms to remind her of things because every time she goes to sleep, she forgets the entire last two years.
She wakes up in a taxi — The book started out fun to read. Bu then liv kept repeating the same thing (deep distrust of cops — no really good explanation for it, but she says it often). Then on a bench in the train station. She keeps waking up and not being as shocked as someone who has absolutely no idea what’s going on would react in my opinion. People keep telling her things, like that she lives in a basement apartment and there are keys to the apartment with her name on it, and items in the apartment that are hers, but she refuses to believe she would live there because it’s so dingy. She also leaves helpful post it notes like “he’s coming for me “and “don’t trust anyone “. Why wouldn’t she write names? That’s be much more helpful.
Spoiler: Amy’s big-time surgeon boyfriend, Brett, killed Amy and Marco. I’m not even sure why, but I guess it’s because he found out that Amy and Marco were sleeping together?
The book skips back-and-forth between two years ago and present, and 24 hours ago. The present chapters have timestamps on them, and they’re all out of order so if Something Happens at 5:53 PM and then you’re reading about some thing that happened at 3:04 PM — it’s very confusing. Throw in 24 hours earlier or two years earlier and you practically have to draw a timeline.
The cops have these little nuggets of wisdom
“An ugly gash under his rib cage suggested the murder weapon was sharp object of some sort, probably a knife”
There’s an entire page of unnecessary information about Halliday’s military friend and all the stuff he went through and why she runs a marathon in his name. His name is never mentioned again once in the book.
“ Do we know what kind of knife was used? The perp took the murder weapon”, Lavelle said. “ well there you go “Roscoe added. “ A perp so attached to his blade he can’t bear to leave it behind. It adds fuel to the theory that the perp was a killer for hire “. WHAT?! Sure, most murder weapons are left for the cops to find easily….right.