Unable to stay awake3/22/2023 ![]() When she checks her pockets to find her phone, she finds a knife wrapped up in a shirt covered in blood! And her hands covered with writings tell her: “ Stay awake”! What the actual hell! ![]() When she reaches to her apartment, she finds out her roommate might be moved away, her cat is gone, strangers live in her place. Our heroine Liv Reese wakes up in a cab, without having any idea when she climbed in, dizzy, confused, heading to her home. You feel like your marathon runner but instead of using your legs, you use your eyes to finish faster. The increasing tension leaves you breathless. This book is outstanding, heart throbbing, mind bending, twisty, wildest, action packed, full throttle ride you may ever get! I love it so much! I cancel everything in my life to focus on it! Because it’s so addictive! Once you start to read, you can not put it down! You are drawn into story by its high tension mystery building, exciting, twisty chapters, biting your nails, squirming in your seat, trying to read faster for finding out what’s gonna happen next. Wow! Memento meets thriller version of Fifty first dates and Before I go to sleep! But Stay Awake ended up being a decently entertaining way to while away a few hours. My jaw didn't drop or anything, but it was enjoyable enough. As for that all-important mystery/twist, it was fine. Still, I did think the story came together nicely in the end. Instead, leave actually useful information for yourself, or better yet, go to the nearest hospital and get checked out. Don't wander around aimlessly with no sleep, acting hysterical and writing cryptic messages to yourself. If you ever lose your memory, don't do what Liv did. My eyes definitely got a workout from all that rolling. Every time she meets someone who could actually help her, she runs away. Liv is your standard heroine of psychological thrillers, pill-popping (in this case, caffeine), paranoid, and just plain dumb in all of her thoughts and actions. The most enjoyable parts were the police investigation, with detective Halliday being the real highlight of the whole thing.īut the majority of this story follows Liv, and that's where it fell short for me. I felt compelled to see where it was going, which definitely kept me turning the pages. On the plus side, I found this to be a quick and easy read. So when the setup is that amazing and it seems to build into something potentially mind-blowing, the question becomes, does it actually deliver? And the answer is yes and no. And on top of all that, someone sinister is stalking her and the police want her for a murder.Īhh! Are you getting vibes of Memento? Yeah, me too. Covering her hands and arms are cryptic messages in her own handwriting, reminding her to "stay awake" and "trust no one." She goes to her apartment, only to find strangers living there. Liv wakes up in the back of a taxi with no idea how she got there. Let me say right off the bat, there is no doubt the premise of this book is crazy good. In the vein of SJ Watson’s Before I Go to Sleep and Christopher Nolan’s cult classic Memento, Megan Goldin’s Stay Awake is an electrifying novel that plays with memory and murder. But there’s someone who does know exactly what she did, and they’ll do anything to make her forget―permanently. What did she do last night? And why does she remember nothing from the past two years? Liv finds herself on the run for a crime she doesn’t remember committing as she tries to piece together the fragments of her life. Catching a glimpse of the local news, she’s horrified to see reports of a crime scene where the victim’s blood has been used to scrawl a message across a window, the same message that’s inked on her hands. ![]() Now, she’s lost and disoriented in a New York City that looks nothing like what she remembers. Two years ago, Liv was living with her best friend, dating a new man, and thriving as a successful writer for a trendy magazine. That’s when she sees that her hands are covered in black pen, scribbled messages like graffiti on her skin: STAY AWAKE. She reaches for her phone to call for help, only to discover it’s missing, and in its place is a bloodstained knife. When she’s dropped off at the door of her brownstone, a stranger answers―a stranger who now lives in her apartment and forces her out in the cold. Liv Reese wakes up in the back of a taxi with no idea where she is or how she got there.
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