It’s always exciting when an author you love writes a new book. Holly Jackson wrote the A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder series and I loved that one. Not Quite Dead Yet is her adult debut and had such an interesting concept, so I had to read it. Today I want to tell you about this book and what I thought.
A big thank you to Netgalley and Bantam for providing me with an eARC to read and review. This doesn’t affect my opinion in any way.
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder—now a hit Netflix series—returns with her first novel for adults: 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.
I’m conflicted about this one though. While I loved the concept and I kept on wanting to read to find out what happened. That being said, I wasn’t as invested as I had hoped. I think this book wanted to do too much. Besides Jet coming to terms with her condition and being assaulted, there was also a lot of family drama. This made the pacing feel off for me at times. I mean, this story already had a lot to do with just Jet dealing with the consequences of her assault and finding the person who did it to her.
I will say my favorite this in this whole book was Billy. He was such a caring and helpful character. He was really in Jet’s corner and would clearly do anything and everything for her. It was clear Jet was very important to him. The last 5% really did hit me in all the feels and I can say that I didn’t expect the twist at the end. Not everything was wrapped up, but Holly Jackson really made me feel for these characters at the end. All in all, Not Quite Dead Yet was an entertaining read.
