Not Quite Dead Yet: A GMA Book Club Pick
A Novel
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4.2 • 381 Ratings
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- $13.99
Publisher Description
GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK • 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: 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 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. This is an absorbing story about a sheltered young woman forced to finally grow up…before the clock runs out.
Customer Reviews
Good but implausible
I had to ignore a lot of things that would never happen in real life to enjoy the story.
Great book
Great book written with so much emotion and humor all in one. It will have you laughing and crying in the same chapter. The ending was beautiful too with the letters. Hopfully anyone who reads this book will take Jets lessons to heart about living in the moment instead of trying to keep up with expectations. Also the final chapter was a rush to read, true thriller.
A big stretch
This book requires a big leap of faith. How can someone with a traumatic brain injury just walk out of the hospital after a few days in order to solve their own murder? Interesting premise - but jus5 doesn’t make sense. Also, the road to the killer’s identity is very weak. The author must think their reader is pretty stupid - whole thing reads like a bad teen novel.