This was such a creative thriller. Liv loses her recent memory every time she falls asleep, so she has written "stay awake" across her knuckles along with several other memos in ink on her body to try and prevent herself from resetting. That is all the information that is given in the beginning few chapters other than that Liv finds herself waking with a bloody knife in her pocket and no idea of where it came from.

The way this plot is written is a dual timeline with one of them working forward from the point of her waking and the other working its way from her past to this point of waking. It was really well done and though the approach could be a little disorienting it wasn't done in a way that left me lost in the story in any way. Instead, it just added to the tension in a way that had me super gripped.

As things slowly unfold, it can get a little repetitious to have Liv fall asleep, wake, and basically start over again and again. It was a little bit grating, but didn't drone on too badly and put the reader in that state of frustration that Liv would undoubtedly find herself as well. It was totally understandable and fit with the way the story needed to go. However, I will say that it was a little bit off-putting regardless of the admittedly well-handled literary structure and character consistency.

The tension was really well-handled throughout the read and I had a good time. I will admit that the plot was just a tiny bit predictable, but the red herrings she threw in were quite clever. The psychological abuse that occurs in the earlier timeline is crazy and seriously had me evaluating how I would have handled a similar situation. However, this is also where things felt a little bit unrealistic because it felt like there were some obvious things that Liv failed to do that an otherwise rational person would've likely considered.

Regardless of the minor flaws I felt existed, this was still a really fun and well-moving read.