2.2k reviews for:

Not Quite Dead Yet

Holly Jackson

4.26 AVERAGE

laura_sine's review

5.0

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious sad fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

lynwho's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful reflective sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Holly Jackson is such a powerhouse I love her wow. If she’s gonna do anything it’s write a compelling mystery story

My only real gripe is that the ending feels very very rushed. And there’s definitely secrets and consequences that, while secondary to the main investigation, I would be very curious as to the fallout 

The voice is still so distinctly Jackson. I don’t think this novel reads much different from her YA work, with the main change really being the profanity and aged up characters

ariana_m's review

4.25

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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This was such a unique concept! Solving your own murder when you only have a seven days left to live. I have personally read something like that. This was so faced paced and bingeable. Jet was, I think more different than other Holly Jackson's characters but still had some similarities like being a strong heroine despite the circumstances.
(I'm not gonna lie, I was thinking about that "nothing beats a jet2holiday" sound on tiktok when I was reading her name at times lol. )
This book is simply following Jet, who was brutally attacked on halloween night and gets told she has seven days until she dies and she uses those seven to try to find out who attacked her. And her best friend Billy who has always been secretly in love with her tags along to help. This was so action packed. I mean action packed until the last page. I wasn't bored at all. Holly Jackson did the thing where she makes almost every character seem suspicious and then throws you off balance with who the person actually is and it's someone you weren't even paying attention to. The ending was sad even though it was inevitable. Don't know why Holly Jackson hates happy endings and why her characters can never be together lol. 
The only negative thing I can say was that this book was supposed to be the authors first adult novel but it read very YA. Jet is 27 but she doesn't seem like that at all. If her age wasn't mentioned I would have thought she 19 at best or younger. A aggtm and all her other books have dark themes maybe darker so you can't use that as as justification. Just because you use all variations of the word "fuck" doesn't mean it's adult. But other than that I really liked this one and highly reccommend!

dan_running_reader's review against another edition

4.0

dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

kayjaybee's review

4.0

dark mysterious sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

ctakamoto's review

4.25

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

baiorreads's review

3.75

medium-paced

magali_torres's review

5.0

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Holly Jackson why can’t you just let me be happy???!!!! Anyways if i could give this 6 stars i would i am currently sobbing my eyes out and will not be okay for at least 24 hours so take from that what you will

michaelashay's review against another edition

4.5

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

sunnylovesreadingyuri's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional funny informative mysterious sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I guessed it right!!  Holly Jackson pls why did you make me violently sob my head hurts 💔