ashley_dang096 's review for:

Stay Awake by Megan Goldin

5.0

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A woman wakes up with no memory of where she is or how she got there... and she discovers that the place she thought she lived in is not the same and other people live there... and there is a bloodstained knife in her pocket. On her hand are various messages scribbled, but most importantly one that says “ STAY AWAKE.” Liv Reese is a woman who wakes up with no memory of the past two years, she doesn’t know what has happened to her, how she’s been living her life, and why she keeps forgetting everything every time she falls asleep. Two years ago she was living her life as a successful writer for a trendy magazine, she had a loving best friend, a handsome boyfriend, and everything was great... until strange things and notes started showing up in her apartment. Live swears she is being watched, that someone is stalking her, but no one will believe her. She tries to report it to the police but they don’t believe her... and when a horrific thing happens and leaves her scarred and suffering from amnesia she now finds herself two years later back in the place where the crime happened... and apparently the killer is still on the loose and has noticed she is back. Liv will now have to trust herself and her guts if she wants to make it out alive. Liv will have to gather up all the missing clues and pieces of her life and try and solve the mystery of what happened to cause her to become like this and who the killer is, and with sleep as a ticking countdown to her memory resetting, she’ll have to stay awake for as long as she can before she starts the cycle again. This was a fantastic take on the unreliable narrator perspective, i thoroughly enjoyed the mystery and the story kept me so invested until the very end! i have loved the rest of the works written by this author and this one definitely did not disappoint!

*Thanks Netgalley and St. Martin's Press for sending me an arc in exchange for an honest review*