Not Quite Dead Yet by Holly Jackson
This had an interesting premise but not my favorite of Jackson’s so far. I feel like the sentence structure got really repetitive and left me skimming a bit because everything felt too in Jet’s head and the thoughts were redundant. However, I love that there was no miracle at the end. I feel like when a character is supposed to die, something happens at the last second and they're saved. I like how realistic this was with Jet dying (no spoiler alert because... that's the whole point!).
It definitely felt more YA to me than I expected, despite the protagonist’s age. I felt like Jet was really childish and annoying, but if she had been 15-17, it wouldn't have bugged me so much. I think going in with the mindset of an adult thriller gives me certain expectations, so maybe if the age was different I would have had different feelings going into it. Some of the scenes and storylines were fairly juvenile, and it would have felt more appropriate for Jet to be 16 struggling with some of this instead of being a very immature, sheltered, inconsiderate, stupid, or all of the above twenty-seven-year-old.