Last year I read Megan Goldin's The Night Swim, which was a great concept with strong characters. Her new book Stay Awake is a decent thriller, but not quite of the same caliber in terms of plotting and pacing. I wanted to like this more than I actually did for a number of reasons, but I do applaud her for putting a fresh spin on the "amnesiac who might have killed someone" trope. I had a hard time getting into this one initially and found some of the timeline confusing, especially all the repetition. I really started to wonder about halfway through if this was a book in search of an editor. But once the story picked up things fell into place and made sense, and it finished as a fast-paced thriller. Thanks to St Martin's Press and NetGalley for this ARC.
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