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Not Quite Dead Yet

Holly Jackson

4.27 AVERAGE

amiracle_z's review against another edition

3.5

I just didn't like it as much as some of her other books

ashreadsitall's review against another edition

5.0

You’ve got to remember to breathe while you’re reading through this thriller. How do I accurately describe what I just experienced into words other than “Holy Shit.” Holly Jackson knows what she’s doing here.

Jet Mason is a 27-year-old daughter of a wealthy family who never follows through with anything. She has the mouth of a sailor and a motto of “I’ll do it later.” And she’ll be dead in seven days. On Halloween night she’s brutally attacked and is given a week to live, as doctors tell her she’ll eventually experience a fatal aneurysm. Jet then sets out to follow through on one thing for once. Solving her own murder.

Can we make this a movie please?! Well done Holly!

bookswithsara8's review against another edition

3.0

How many times do we need to be reminded

that she has one arm she can no longer feel or use

? I read this right after The Reappearance of Rachel Price and was a bit disappointed.

laura_sine's review against another edition

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

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 against another edition

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

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!