Not Quite Dead Yet: A GMA Book Club Pick: A Novel (Unabridged)
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3.9 • 127 Ratings
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK • A WASHINGTON POST AND NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • The author of A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder—now a hit Netflix series—returns with her first novel for adults: an “irresistible” (The Washington Post) thriller about a young woman trying to solve her own murder, “full of the writer’s signature twists and turns” (People).
“This truly unique premise snowballs into a roller-coaster ride of page-turning suspense and knock-out twists!”—Freida McFadden, author of The Housemaid
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 and back home, she’s still waiting for her life to begin. I’ll do it later, she always says. She has time.
Until Halloween night, when she is violently attacked by an unseen intruder, suffering a catastrophic head injury. Doctors are certain that within a week, the injury will trigger a fatal aneurysm. To her parents’ dismay, Jet rejects an extremely risky operation in order to guarantee herself at least a few more days.
Jet never thought of herself as having enemies. But now, in the one week she has left, she looks at everyone in a new light: her family, her former best friend turned sister-in-law, her ex-boyfriend.
As her condition deteriorates, she reconnects with her childhood friend Billy, the only one willing to help her. With Billy at her side, she’s absolutely determined to finally finish something:
Jet is going to solve her own murder.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
This is an inventive and absorbing twist on the classic murder mystery. Jet Mason has spent the last few years jumping from idea to idea, seeking a purpose. Well, this 27-year-old dilettante sure has one now: Someone brutally attacked her on Halloween night, and she only has a week to figure out who it was before her head injury develops into a fatal aneurysm. Who hated Jet enough to kill her? It must have been someone close, but if that’s true, then whom can she trust to help her solve this crime before her clock runs out forever? We loved the way that author Holly Jackson leans into the almost farcical conceit of the story—a clever update of the classic 1950 noir film D.O.A.—while also providing plenty of surprises and a strong sense of tragedy. Narrator Alex McKenna enhances the storytelling by infusing Jet’s voice with petulance, annoyance, and an undeniable hint of charm. The tone is just right for a sheltered young woman forced to finally grow up…before the clock runs out.
Customer Reviews
Holly Jackson nailed it with this one
Love love love this book !! Ups and downs that kept me going ! Would highly recommend ! I need more books like this !
Read it, don’t listen
I like the story, but the narrator’s voice is really hard to listen to. Read it instead!
Read. Don’t listen.
The narrator is not good. The voice is annoyingly scratchy and child like. Is this supposed to be an adult novel? It sounds like I’m listening to Junie B Jones. I will trudge through it because I paid for it, but I will be on the lookout to never buy an audiobook with this narrator. My advice: read a physical copy, save your ears.