⭐⭐⭐⭐✨ (4½ stars)
Goodreads Choice Award Winner for Readers’ Favorite Mystery & Thriller (2025)
Holly Jackson makes a seamless leap from YA powerhouse to adult thriller with Not Quite Dead Yet, and wow — what a hook. Thirty-six hours after a brutal Halloween attack, Jet Mason wakes in a Vermont hospital to devastating news: a bone fragment is pressing against a vital artery, and within a week she’ll suffer a fatal hemorrhage. Surgery offers only a slim chance. So Jet makes a choice that sets this story on fire — she’ll spend her last seven days finding her killer.
Jet, the sharp-tongued, restless daughter of one of Woodstock’s wealthiest families, has always believed she had time. Time to start her life. Time to figure things out. That illusion shatters fast. As her condition worsens, she begins to see everyone differently — her powerful family, her ex-best friend turned sister-in-law, her former boyfriend. Trust evaporates. Motives surface.
With only her loyal childhood friend Billy at her side, Jet races the clock to solve her own murder. The ticking timeline gives this novel serious propulsion, and Jackson handles the tension with confidence. Jet’s voice is feisty and biting, which keeps the story from sinking into darkness.
A bold premise, strong execution, and a heroine I won’t forget. I’m officially a new Holly Jackson fan.
Thanks to NetGalley and Bantam for a complimentary copy of the eBook.