Wow! This author is quickly becoming one of my favorites. This is the 3rd book I’ve read by her and I’ve really enjoyed them all.

Liv wakes up late at night in the back of a cab. She can’t remember how she got there or where she’s going. In fact, the last thing she remembers is answering her phone in her office at work on a sunny July morning. She looks at her hands and sees notes written on them - Stay Awake! Wake Up! Don’t Trust Anyone - and is concerned. She gets even more concerned when she arrives at her apartment only to find other people living there. While standing outside, she realizes she has a t-shirt balled up in her hands and in the t-shirt is a bloody knife which she immediately tosses.

This begins the endless loop that Liv is living in. Every time she falls asleep, she wakes up with no memory of where she is or how she got there. It’s now Fall - two years after she answered that phone call in her office - and Wake Up has been written in blood on a window at the scene of a murder. Did Liv kill someone?

Thank you to St. Martin’s Press, the author and NetGalley for an eARC of this book. ( )

No Rest for the Wicked


There is a good reason why Megan Goldin is one of my favorite thriller writers. I think that THE ESCAPE ROOM is still one of my all-time-favorites books and one that stands out from the rest, but her latest book is not far behind. It only took a few pages into STAY AWAKE to find myself utterly absorbed by the shattered reality that has become Liv’s life..

I love thrillers that rely strongly on the doubt cast on the main protagonist’s mental state. Liv, a traumatized woman who forgets everything that has happened to her as soon as she falls asleep, is a perfect candidate to star in that category of unreliable narrators. With every plot twist, I admired the author for being able to create such an intricate, multi-layered and challenging novel without ever losing credibility. Every time I was briefly concerned that a thread would be left hanging or would stretch credibility too far, I was soon reassured by the background detail that made it all perfectly plausible and tied things up nicely in the end. A highlight for me was the authors ablity to show Liv as she wakes up, completely confused and then start trying to go home or to work, only to realize that she has been asleep longer than she thought and that things have changed. Toward the end she tries to stay awake long enough to untangle all the clues of her current circumstances. The only downfall I had with the story is the constant need to be reminded that Liv is forgetful. I enjoyed this very much and will continue to be a fan of Megan Goldin moving forward. 4 STARS in other words this book is totally # All-Nighter Worthy


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I really enjoyed this book!! I think this book was such a fun and quick read!! I had a super hard time putting this book down! I loved all the POV but i felt like other then the main charaters they were a bit underdevceloped. I had a hard time predicitng this book but it was such a engaging read!! def want to to read more by this author in the futrue!! ( )

I really enjoyed this book!! I think this book was such a fun and quick read!! I had a super hard time putting this book down! I loved all the POV but i felt like other then the main charaters they were a bit underdevceloped. I had a hard time predicitng this book but it was such a engaging read!! def want to to read more by this author in the futrue!! ( )

I really enjoyed this! I love the authors writing style and her characters were great!

The way that the past was revealed to Liv I wish had more showing rather than telling, but in this case it would be quite difficult due to her memory issues. I loved how the dual timelines showed us before the incident and then after the new incident as parallels. ( )