Stay Awake by Megan Goldin

Love Book Tours brings you Stay Awake by Megan Goldin. I’m showing you the UK cover but the US cover is very different. I love seeing covers change to appeal to a different audience. No matter which cover you pick up this is a book you will not want to miss!

A murder she doesn’t remember committing. Or a killer she doesn’t remember meeting?

Liv Reese wakes up in the back of a taxi with no idea where she is or how she got there. She is dropped off at her apartment, but is confronted by a stranger who claims to live there. Confused, she reaches for her phone to call for help – only to find that in its place is a bloodstained knife. That’s when she sees that her hands are covered in scribbles repeating the same two words: STAY AWAKE.

Last she recalls, Liv was a successful writer for a New York magazine. Now, she’s lost and disoriented in the city. She is horrified to see news reports of a crime scene where the victim’s blood has been used to scrawl a message: the same message that’s inked on her hands. What did she do last night before waking in a moving car?

Liv finds herself on the run for a crime she doesn’t remember committing and trying to piece together the fragments of her life. But there’s someone who knows exactly what she did, and they’ll do anything to make her forget – permanently.

Review

Every time you wake up you don’t remember anything from the recent past, including where you are and how you got there. This is the nightmare that makes up Liv’s life.

This story is told over a day but has flashbacks to 2 years ago, the last time Liv remembers anything. The author artfully uses the flashbacks to develop the story and gives the reader little tidbits about Liv’s past. I loved the premise of the book and the constant guessing. I like books that I don’t know the ending until the end and this is one of those books. I highly recommend it!

Stay in touch with the author on social media:

Instagram: @megangoldinauthor

Twitter: @meganfoldin