Holly Jackson never disappoints. This is fast paced and hard to put down. Jet was murdered in her home but don’t die. So she enlists her childhood best friend to help her solve her murder before she finally dies. While I did figure out a few of the twists overall it was a great read!

5 Stars — Suspenseful, Emotional, and Unforgettable!

Not Quite Dead Yet by Holly Jackson had me hooked from the very first page. The story of Jet, who is murdered and must solve her own death before she truly passes on, had me in both suspense and tears. I felt every emotion alongside her — her fear, her heartbreak, her determination. The twists and turns were masterfully done, leaving me completely speechless more than once. Holly Jackson has created a story that's both heart-wrenching and utterly gripping. I couldn’t put it down!

The last 20% was actually really good, I wish the first 80% had kept me as hooked. Bouncing between 2 & 3 stars but 3 because I was truly so hooked in the last fifth. This book reminds me of "I've dug two graves for us, my dear,"— one for me, one for the liar standing near. Seven days to solve her own murder before she dies? Say less, I thought I’d be HOOKED. But I wasn’t, really. I was invested but not necessarily hooked. I truly think my issue is that Jet was an unlikable character to such an extent that I couldn’t find any redeeming qualities for her
The tension, the mystery, the ticking clock? All wonderful elements! Tension, suspense, and a myriad of desperate, edge-of-your-seat secrets? I’d love to recommend this to people!

✨️Review✨️
Not Quite Dead Yet By: Holly Jackson

5/5 🌙's

Overview: Jet is 27, and she feels like she hasn't truly accomplished anything despite being bright and having a lot of passions. Her family is well to do and prominent. Family secrets may just be the reason that she dies. But that's the thing. she's a dead girl walking. The time is ticking, and she wants to do this last thing before she goes her last contribution that she didn't give while she was alive. With the help of her childhood friend Billy, they researched the circumstances. Everyone is a suspect.

Thoughts: This book was so good. I couldn't put it down. the story was a snowball from beginning to end. The plot just kept growing and growing as it barreled down a hill. I was questioning everyone. There were so many motives and so many suspects. This truly encompasses the reality of a messy family with family ties to the town. Jet is extremely relatable. The 27 year old with so many hopes and dreams but not motivation and unsure of herself. I absolutely loved this novel. I was constantly making guesses, and in the end, I never called who did it. This book is unique because our main character is on her way to death, but she is solving her OWN murder.

I would recommend this book to ANY mystery lover. Anyone who loves small-town drama and deep connections. Do you love a twist to something as common as solving a crime?

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for providing me with a DRC of this book by Holly Jackson in exchange for an honest review. These opinions are my own.

- did the book end or did it end me ?-

great question it actually ended me !!!!
thankyou netgalley for an arc of the book in exchange for a honest review

so now on to the review im sat here staring at the wall wondering what to do with my life now ,
to be honest i thought the first 50 pages were quite slow but after that it picked up and was going 500mph . i do think this should have been marketed as ya though as it felt like over ya books ive read

however now for the positives .
the characters were so well developed and it had such an intense story line and i felt fully invested line after line .
i could picture all the places mentioned and feel like this would be an excellent movie, the plot twist where plot twisting and the dog didnt die yay !!!!

so my final rating is ........

5 stars !!!!

First, I want to say, I appreciate the opportunity to read this book early as I am a big fan of Holly Jackson. I really liked the story, I didn’t think it would be much darker than As Good as Dead but it was and it was the better for it. Poor Jet. I wanted a miracle ending for her. I would have liked more resolution on Sophia positioning Scott and more information on if Scott selling the company had to do with Luke not being his biological son or not, but mostly Sophia. The note Jet wrote to Reggie at the end broke my heart. Poor Reggie.

Holly Jackson hits it ouT of the park with this unique YA thriller. So many twits..do not assume you know how it is goig to go down as it the story switches its direction many times over. Absolutely brilliant story plot in an age where it seems many ideas are recycled.
Jet Mason is 27 years old, still waiting for her life to begin, never able to finish anything she starts and most definitely does not notice how her oldest friend is crushing on her. Also she will be dead in 7 days. She refused a risking surgery and instead wants to investigate on her own who would want her dead. In the process, she sees that boy iina new light while uncovering many secrets of many different people like her dad, her brother, even her mother. She herself has a few.
Jet's personality is fierce. She has nothing to lose and you will root for her and still feel for her knowing what is to come (read author's acknowledgments afterward) Jet's letters to loved ones at the end were fabulous, loved the one to her sister-in-law.
This one is a keeper and will be devour by my students
Thank you Netgalley and Bantam/Random House.

Holly Jackson's newest thriller, Not Quite Dead Yet was a twisting roller coaster from the get go! Jet Mason was struck from behind and left for dead. But Jet was Not Quite Dead Yet! After waking up in the hospital and hearing she only had a week to live she decided to help the detectives find the person who attacked her. And so the roller coaster begins! Hang on tight, enjoy the ups and downs until the end!

I know that Holly Jackson is a hugely popular YA Mystery/Thriller author, and this is her adult debut - and, it really shows. Jet, our protagonist, may be 27 for the main events of this novel, but she just as easily could have been 16 or 17 - she, and most of the other characters, even those with adult jobs, marriages, and children, just didn't read as adult - I felt like they could all have just been teenagers. To me, the difference between an adult title and a YA title is not necessarily simply the age of the main characters of the book, but a sort of teenager vs. adult sensibility, and this book just didn't work for the on that front. So, expectations not met in that sense. That being said - if I consider this book as a YA thriller/mystery, it's a pretty good example of the genre - complicated characters with somewhat flawed reasoning, unresolved long-term issues, simmering town tension - I didn't hate it, I was just expecting something else from the marketing and classification of this one.

When you’re a thriller reader it can be difficult to find a unique concept, but Holly Jackson really offered something new with this one.
When our FMC Jet is brutally attacked in Halloween night, she has one week to live and solve her own murder.
Although I enjoyed the mystery of Jet’s story, for me the characters just lacked the depth I needed to really care about them. Jet’s character relies heavily on kind of an immature “I’m a fuck up but I’m quirky and funny” in a way that still feels very YA despite being an adult thriller.

Seven days to solve your murder or die forever?! Say less. I was hooked from start to finish. Holly Jackson is such a great thriller writer.

I want to ask a simple question:

What makes this book adult? Is it solely because the protagonist is 27 years old?

Because to me, that is not enough to qualify. Not Quite Dead Yet read like a standard YA novel, very similar to all of other Holly Jackson books I have read. Sure, MAYBE there were far too many "F" words to call in a young adult book. (just like how too many in a movie makes it be rated "R" instead of "PG-13.")

Additionally, this book did not have an original plot. Solving one's murder before they have actually died is an interesting concept and [ Jet actually does die which frankly I was glad to see and not some miraculous Hallmark ending (hide spoiler)]. But all of the family drama that ensues is literally what I encountered in another book. [ a sibling killing another sibling, someone not really being related, the biological parent being the ultimate murderer (hide spoiler)]. I was honestly disappointed.

This book is fine. And people will enjoy it. Just do not expect spicy. Don't expect originality.

3.75 ⭐️
I really enjoyed this book. It only took me a day to read. I’m a big fan of Holly Jackson’s AGGGTM series.
This book follows Jet Mason while she tries to solve her own murder. Jet is attacked at her home and left for dead. Jet suffers a head injury leaving her only a week to survive.
This book is a real whodunnit. It kept me guessing until the end.

I really enjoyed the concept of this book: solving your own murder before you die. This book was tragic, but I didn’t want to stop reading it. I couldn’t help but root for Jet and Billy. Very enjoyable read!

An incredibly fresh plot and such a fun twist! I adore Holly Jackson's writing. Not Quite Dead Yet was a thriller/mystery that kept me on my toes until the very end. Highly recommended for those in a reading slump and need something to jump start them back into reading!

Having enjoyed the A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder series, I was excited to see how Holly Jackson would approach her debut in the adult thriller genre. The book did not disappoint and was immediately gripping. Although her writing style still leans toward young adult, I believe Jackson successfully infused the story with her own twists and humor. The premise is engaging, particularly the way the female protagonist seeks to uncover her killer's identity before her own death. This approach is unique, as most thrillers tend to follow the opposite trajectory.

I loved Jet as the female protagonist. I loved her chaotic and imperfect nature, and by the end of the book, I truly felt for her, especially knowing her fate. She fought hard and was determined to uncover the truth until the very last moment. The handwritten letters she wrote were a great addition. The suspense of her trying to find her own murderer was exciting, and Jsckdom left a breadcrumb trail full of clues along the way until we find out who waa her murderer.

This may be my favorite Holly Jackson book. This book definitely felt like a breath of fresh air after reading so many thrillers that are alike.

Thank you to NetGallery and to Random House Publishing Group - Ballantine | Bantam for my copy.

This was so fun and twisty! I thought I had it figured out early, but it bent a different way, and it was such a fun ride. Excellent foray into adult novels!

Another Holly Jackson book where the cops do absolutely NOTHING. This was pretty good! I do think A GOOD GIRLS GUIDE TO MURDER was a stronger story overall but I think that this one did a decent job in what it set out to do.

The premise was really fascinating and I did appreciate the fact that Jackson did not cheapen the story by finding some miracle cure and did actually end the story the way that was promised from the beginning. Solving your own murder is a premise I have heard of before, but I don't think it was done quite like this. The final reveal was also well done because you are actually finding out new information as the story goes along so there is no way to completely predict it at the beginning.

The romance was a little bit of a weaker aspect as it was blatantly obvious so Jet had to be so beyond blind to not see it. I'm not entirely sure if it was necessary either. This is a relatively short book, so we don't really get to see enough time between these two characters to really root for them together and having them be really close friends could have achieved the same end goal. But their changing relationship aspect did lend to another tragedy in Jet's eventual death. It was sad and a little hard to read her get closer and closer to death and that final scene was pretty rough and really well done.

The weakest parts of the story was that there just wasn't enough character work for me to really care about Jet and co. enough, and I also don't think there was enough wow factor or reveals along the way for it to be super super strong. There aren't a ton of details to uncover, the crew didn't have a lot of issues coming into this information, and there weren't a lot of suspects overall. While this did keep my attention for the whole story, I just wanted a little bit more. If there was more to the story, characters, mystery, deaths, then this could have been bumped into a higher rating.

As is, I think it was good. There isn't anything ground breaking here and I probably won't remember this in the long-run, But, that being said, I think this is a great one for potential younger YA readers and it isn't as scary as her other trilogy or other books in the genre making this a good choice for wimps alike myself.

Ingenious way to write a murder novel in reverse with the victim as the detective so!ving her own murder and unknown secrets of her past. I loved the intensity of all the twists and turns and like Holly says you can let the breath you've been holding.

Holly Jackson truly never fails to pull me out of a reading slump, and this one was no exception. Just like her previous books, this one was fast-paced, suspenseful, and had me turning the pages late into the night. The concept is so unique—I've honestly never read a mystery with a plot quite like this: Jet, the main character, is attacked and then told she has only seven days to live... which she decides to spend solving her own murder. How cool (and chilling) is that?

I was a little worried going in that the premise might only sound good, but Holly actually pulls it off really well. The pacing is tight, the tension stays high, and I was fully invested in Jet’s countdown from day one.

That being said—and it pains me to say this—this is sadly my least favorite Holly Jackson book so far. I've read all of her other books and I don't think this one quite measures up. It's not because it's her first adult book (I actually didn't mind this at all). The issue for me was mostly with the plot twists. A lot of them were just too predictable, and while there was one jaw-dropping moment, it was resolved pretty quickly and didn’t leave a lasting impact.

For me, a good mystery is defined by it´s twists, and unfortunately, that’s where this one fell short. Still, I’ll continue to devour anything Holly Jackson writes—because you can always count on her to keep you on the edge of your seat the whole way through.

3.5 ★

Thank you so much Netgalley for the e-ARC in exchange for my honest review.