Not Quite Dead Yet

Here's Holy Jackson's "Not Quite Dead Yet."

["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'll be honest with you. I read the first chapter of this, absolutely hated Jet, and put it down for a few weeks. I knew, from a craft standpoint, that hating Jet was probably a choice on the author's part, that we would eventually grow to love her as she made her redemption arc, which would only make her eventual death more painful. Granted, she didn't turn into a saint overnight. But she grew as a person and she grew on me.

After I got past the first chapter, I couldn't put this book down. The web kept tangling and weaving and coming together only to spiral off in several directions. You get a suspect, clear then, find two more in it's place. You get a motive and find even more suspects, even more motives, even more times of opportunity. So many secrets, so many lies, so many "oh I didn't tell you"s and "it's not important"s. It all just kept going and going and going until...

Until thunderclaps after thunderclaps of pain, waves and waves of tears and grief. This was one of the hardest endings to a book I've read in a while, and like "Call Me By Your Name", you saw the ending coming (doesn't make it easier).

This is arguably, Holy's best book to date. You HAVE to read it. 

Trigger Warnings: dark humor, violence, medial emergencies, medical decisions, murder, death, and more.

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