Stay Awake
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4.0 • 8 Ratings
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- $25.99
Publisher Description
Liv Reese wakes up in the back of a taxi with no idea where she is or how she got there. 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. She reaches for her phone to call for help, only to discover it's missing, and in its place is a bloodstained knife. That's when she sees that her hands are covered in black pen, scribbled messages like graffiti on her skin: STAY AWAKE.
Two years ago, Liv was living with her best friend, dating a new man, and thriving as a successful writer for a trendy magazine. Now, she's lost and disoriented in a New York City that looks nothing like what she remembers. 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. 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. But there's someone who does know exactly what she did, and they'll do anything to make her forget - permanently.
From the internationally bestselling author of The Escape Room and The Night Swim, STAY AWAKE Is a heart-stopping thriller that is guaranteed to keep you up all night.
Customer Reviews
Memento meets Before I Go to Sleep
Australian journalist turned author of psychological thrillers set in the USA, of which this is her fourth.
A thirty-something chick wakes up in taxi crossing the Brooklyn Bridge in the middle of the night. No wallet or keys, no ID, but a roll of cash in her pocket, and messages in her handwriting in ballpoint on her hands and arms, like the title noted above. Cabbie drops her at home, except it isn’t. Other people live there and are not happy to see her. Work is completely different too, although at least someone there recognises her. Apparently, she’s been living in the UK for two years. WTAF.
Meanwhile, a dude is found murdered in an Air-BnB in the city. The killer has left a message on the window in blood— ‘Wake Up’—which is another one of the things written on our gal’s arm. She goes looking for herself. A rookie female homicide detective goes looking for a killer.
Crisp prose with lots of repetition because she keeps getting tired, falling asleep, and starting over again when she wakes up. If you think that sounds derivative as hell, I agree.