Review: Stay With Me - Nicole Fiorina

Stay With Me by Nicole Fiorina
My rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐stars

OMG! What did I just read! This book is an amazing piece of literature that I just couldn’t put down. Told from the perspective of Mia, it tells the story of a girl who literally has no feelings (or rather pushed them down so much that she has no feelings) and takes us on her journey through Dalor, a university for those with mental illness and who are deemed dangerous to society. But nothing is as it seems and Mia is housed with those who are there to manipulate and cause carnage no matter the consequences. All of this changes when Mia meets Ollie, a green eyed, tattooed, poet. But Ollie may just be Mia’s downfall…..or her saviour!

This book is amazing! The words just seem to flow off the page as you get embroiled in Mia’s psyche. It is like being dropped down the rabbit-hole and knowing that you can’t really escape. There are definitely moments when you don’t like Mia because of what she does to hurt other people and to keep herself safe, but by the end of the book, you are totally rooting for her and have more insight into why she is the way she is.

There are some true horrifying moments in this book which may be a trigger for other readers, but the author handles them in a way which although not always a HEA, but a more relatable, everyday life type of way (I can’t give too much away because of spoilers). On the other hand there are some beautiful moments between Ollie and Mia and a few of the other characters as they field their way through their life at Dalor. There is such poetry between Ollie and Mia and the author has even included poems written by Ollie at the start of each chapter which give you brief glimpses into what is going on in Ollie’s head.

This book is filled with angst, emotion, betrayal, disability, poetry to name but a few and you just want to get to the end of the book to see what happens. Ms. Firoina has created characters that you may not love 100% and at times you totally hate them! But holy-moley do they make you want to read to the end to see what happens!

This book ends on a cliff-hanger….and what a cliff-hanger it is. Through it all though, I am totally cheering for Ollie and Mia because if anyone deserves a HEA, it’s them.

ARC received for a fair and honest review.


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