Title: Not Quite Dead Yet
By: Holly Jackson
Genre: Mystery
Pages: 392
Release Date: July 17th, 2025
Rating: ★★★☆☆
Summary from Goodreads:
A twisty thriller about a young woman trying to solve her own murder.
In seven days Jet Mason will be dead.
Jet is the daughter of one of the wealthiest families in Woodstock, Vermont. Twenty-seven years old, she’s still waiting for her life to begin. I’ll do it later, she always says. She has time.
Until Halloween night, when Jet is violently attacked by an unseen intruder.
She suffers a catastrophic head injury. The doctor is certain that within a week, the injury will trigger a deadly aneurysm.
Jet has never thought of herself as having enemies. But now she looks at everyone in a new light: her family, her former best friend turned sister-in-law, her ex-boyfriend.
She has at most seven days, and as her condition deteriorates she has only her childhood friend Billy for help. But nevertheless, she’s absolutely determined to finally finish something:
Jet is going to solve her own murder.
Review:
I think this might be an unpopular opinion, but I found the characters in Not Quite Dead Yet to be super annoying. It may have been the audiobook narrator. There was a lot of whining in the delivery, but the writing didn’t do much to balance it out. The plot itself is interesting and had plenty of potential, but I struggled to connect with the characters because their voices (literal and written) grated on me more than I expected. Overall, a decent concept with execution that just wasn’t for me.
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