Holly JacksonMystery · Thriller·b. 1992
Not Quite Dead Yet
Synopsis
Jet Mason has spent her life keeping people at arm's length, drifting between half-finished plans and a family she loves but doesn't quite trust. Then someone tries to kill her, leaving her with a traumatic brain injury and a doctor's devastating verdict: without emergency surgery, she has seven days left to live. The surgery would save her life but wipe her short-term memory, taking with it any hope of remembering who attacked her.
So Jet makes an impossible choice: she delays the operation to spend her final week finding her own killer before he tries again, racing against a body that is failing her a little more each day. With her childhood best friend Billy as her only ally, she works back through her tangled relationships with her siblings, an ex she never stopped loving, and secrets her family has kept for years, knowing that whoever hurt her is still out there, and may already suspect she's looking.
From the author of A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, Not Quite Dead Yet is a high-concept, propulsive thriller that turns amateur detection into a literal race against death, filtered through Holly Jackson's sharp eye for family dysfunction and misdirection.
How it reads
- Writing2.5
- Impact3.0
- Characters2.5
- Plot2.5
- Atmosphere2.5
Prose complexity 4/10
Fear level
1.0 avg fear
Content warnings (4)
ViolenceSuicideSubstance AbuseGun Violence
Readers say (1)Tense · Dark · Mysterious · Survival · Friends to Lovers
Readers flagged (3)
SuicideSubstance AbuseGun Violence
- Sorry but I did not like this at all. Jet was absolutely insufferable and I seriously didn't care if she lived or died. There is a time and place for everything but somehow she never got that memo. There is no way she is in her late 20s. I think she is supposed to be 27 or so but she acts like she is 16. Really, if her age in the book was sixteen then I probably would have been a bit more understanding. There is no way that she was a functioning adult with all the whining. And we can't blame it on the injury because she was that way before the killer tried to relieve us of Jet. She was just so awful, how could anyone root for her?? Couldn't she have been nicer to her mom (or literally anybody else in the book)? How is it unreasonable that her mom didn't want her. to die?! It's not her decision but what else did she want her mom to do? I guess, just be like "'k" and move on with her day? I felt bad for poor Billy, he really needed to stand up for himself and just drop her. The rest of the characters were all just as bad. Who was likeable? The dog. Only the dog. The drama was too over the top. The only thing I liked was the concept of being able to solve your own murder.
- "I think this has been the worst week of my life, because I'm going to lose you, and I don't want to lose you." "But, it's also been the best week of my life, because I got to spend it with you." I really loved the pacing of this story, I was so interested in every clue we got as it progressed. A town full of secrets, complicated family dynamics and a lot of mystery. Jet's journey to find the person that attacked her is one I wasn't expecting, she's able to uncover so much more than one thing connected to her family. I like how she's able to learn more about herself as well too. The book kept me so interested as we learned more about the events that led to her attack. Also, if you are able to get the audiobook, I definitely recommend it.
- Thank god that’s over. Definitely not an adult book. Shockingly basic characters. Weak plot. The longer I went on, the more I disliked it. However, I’ve just gone and read some of the other reviews now I’m finished and everyone else seems to love it?? Can one of my friends pls read it and see if I’m the problem here.
- Me impresiona como algunos libros pueden venir re bien a a mitad y arruinarla en el final.
- <div><spoiler>cus why would she still die😭😭😭😭</spoiler></div>
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