bookcravings 's review for:

Stay Awake by Megan Goldin

3.0

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I loved The Night Swim and really wanted to like this title I think because I went in blind, I felt like it was going into a sci-fi, drug induced cause, rather than trauma caused source of memory loss. While I enjoy other stories about amnesia, the restarting of each day with no memory of the previous day was hard to read. There was tension added by the fact that Liv was in real danger, and I wanted to know more about what happened, and why she was in trouble, although it was somewhat predictable. The author did a good job of getting inside Liv's head, her confusion at realizing it was 2 years from her last memory, and her thought processes for getting information about her life, but I really grimaced most of the way through the book.

Thanks to NetGalley and St. Martin's Press for an advanced reader's copy.