e-Audio, 14:26:43
Narrated by: Alex McKenna
Release Date: July 22, 2025
Published by: Books on Tape (Bantam)
Read from: July 22-23, 2025
Stand-alone
Source: PRH Audio App (I received a free e-ALC from the publisher and their app. This did nothing to influence my review. Thank you to the publishers for the free ALC copy.)
Content Warning: Murder, Death, Blood, Alcoholism, Child Death, Gun Violence, Infidelity, Suicide, Abandonment, Hospital talk
For Readers Interested In: Action, Adult, Audio, Auto Buy Author, Favorites, Sparkly Covers, Most Anticipated, Realistic Fiction, ThrillersThe #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: a twisty thriller about a young woman trying to solve her own murder.
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.
*MY THOUGHTS*
As a Holly Jackson fan from the beginning, I KNEW I was going to have to read this. I knew I was going g to love it and I hadn’t even read the synopsis. Holly Jackson is going to be on my automatic buy for a long time. And this book solidified that.
I had a lot of fun with this one, but I did get annoyed with the MC for a little. She was out of pocket with everyone. And she was doing the most with this head injury. I mean, cracking concrete?! She was doing the most. I kept wondering what was going to happen if she never found out because she hurt her own self smh lol
As for the other characters, her mom was ANNOYING. Especially at a time like this she needed to be able to make her own decisions. She needed to learn boundaries. She showed me why people don’t always tell people what’s going on. Because she was making decisions for her and I didn’t like that. It would have been different if it wouldn’t have happened either way, but it WAS. And her dad was so nonchalant, but he was also sick so I let that go. Everybody else was just upset because of her situation. Which I understood completely.
The writing style was the best tho. I LOVE Holly Jackson. There is literally no one who could have come up with something like this lol I doubt there was anyone who even researched something that would make them not quite dead. This was the weirdest concept I’ve read in a long time. And I have read a lot of weird stuff.
As for the mystery, there was A LOT going on in this book. So when you think you’ve figured it out, don’t think that’s it because there’s so many layers to this story. Let me just say, toxic. And I can’t imagine one of them doing this on purpose?! Yeah that person would have been gone. And I hope they were in the end. I just, idk. But that was only the beginning. There was so much more under the surface. So basically, when you think you have it, you really don’t. I don’t want to say anything else because obviously spoilers, but just know, you know nothing.
This was so good. So layered and so real. Holly Jackson is a force to be reckoned with. With this one she just solidified to me that it doesn’t matter what it is that she’s written, YA or Adult, hell she could be like TDJ and write a MG novel, but I would read it. And then I’d go and tell my old kiddos who asked for updates from her and other authors and we’d read it together again. I was hooked and I’m sure if you read this, you will be too.
Overall, I give this
