Stay Awake, Megan Goldin
Stay Awake, Megan Goldin
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Stay Awake
A Novel

Author: Megan Goldin

Narrator: Imogen Church, January LaVoy

Unabridged: 10 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/09/2022


Synopsis

A murder she doesn’t remember committing. A killer she doesn’t remember meeting. Megan Goldin’s Stay Awake is an electrifying novel that proves memory can be deadly.

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 claims to live in her apartment. She reaches for her phone to call for help, only to discover it’s missing. In its place is a bloodstained knife. Her hands are covered in scribbled messages, like graffiti on her skin: STAY AWAKE.

Two years ago, Liv was 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, similar to the 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. But there’s someone who does know exactly what she did, and they’ll do anything to make her forget—permanently.

A complex thriller that unfolds at a breakneck speed, Stay Awake will keep you up all night.

A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin's Press.

About Megan Goldin

MEGAN GOLDIN worked as a correspondent for Reuters and other media outlets where she covered war, peace, international terrorism and financial meltdowns in the Middle East and Asia. She is now based in Melbourne, Australia where she raises three sons and is a foster mum to Labrador puppies learning to be guide dogs. She is the author of The Escape Room, The Night Swim, Stay Awake, and Dark Corners.

About January LaVoy

January LaVoy has narrated the Sweet Valley Confidential series for Macmillan Audio, as well as The Snow Angel by Glenn Beck and Dreams of the Dead by Perri O’Shaughnessy.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Yun on February 14, 2024

Let me say right off the bat, there is no doubt the premise of this book is crazy good. Liv wakes up in the back of a taxi with no idea how she got there. 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 apartm......more

Goodreads review by Nilufer on March 04, 2023

Wow! Memento meets thriller version of Fifty first dates and Before I go to sleep! 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......more

Goodreads review by jessica on March 09, 2022

holy crap. this book messed. me. up. this is one of the most exciting psychological thrillers i have ever read. im not a fan of the unreliable narrator trope, but there are certain instances when it can be used super effectively, and this is one of those times. it reminded me so much of ‘the flight......more

Goodreads review by Meredith (Trying to catch up!) on January 24, 2022

One of the best thrillers I have read in some time! 4.5 stars Stay Awake is a riveting thriller about a woman with a rare form of amnesia that puts her in the crosshairs of a murder investigation. When Liv falls asleep, she wakes up not remembering. She is stuck in a time loop from two years ago. Whe......more

Goodreads review by Michael on December 24, 2021

An expertly plotted thriller that will cause you to stay awake until you read the very last page. Liv Reese wakes up in the middle of the night in NYC, in the back of a taxi…with no recollection of how she got there. She has writing all over her hands, and it’s her handwriting: messages telling her t......more


Awards

  • NYPL Best Books of the Year