Jet Mason will be dead in seven days. That means she only has a week to solve her own murder. No pressure!
On Halloween night Jet is violently attacked in her wealthy family’s small town Vermont home. She’s left for dead but found by her childhood best friend Billy. The traumatic head injury she received during the attack has triggered an aneurysm that is guaranteed to kill her within a week. With Billy by her side Jet is determined to figure out who killed her before she actually dies.
This is Jackson’s first adult novel as opposed to young adult. I had enjoyed the A Good Girl’s Guide To Murder trilogy well enough but found the next two not as memorable. I didn’t have high hopes for this one either. I thought the whole concept was interesting but also kinda ridiculous and I immediately disliked Jet. Her entire family sucks and most of their “enemies” seemed to have pretty good reasons to hate them. But sometime soon after Jet hops up out of her hospital bed and starts Scooby Doo-ing around town I just softened towards her. I got completely sucked in and zoomed through most of the book in an evening. By the end I was so attached there were even some tears. I wasn’t even paying attention to the mystery I was just hoping for a miracle that we all knew was not going to come.