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Not Quite Dead Yet by Holly Jackson | August Book Club

I'll Read What She's Reading

I'll Read What She's Reading

Arts, Books

4.4541 Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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In this episode of I’ll Read What She’s Reading, Mikayla, Reggie, and Kennedy dive into our August book club pick, Not Quite Dead Yet by Holly Jackson. We share our star ratings, talk about the twists that kept us guessing, or the twists that we did guess. From shocking reveals to character dynamics, we cover it all- plus a little debate on how this one stacks up against Holly Jackson’s other books. Grab your copy and join the conversation! Please note this episode may contain paid endorsem...

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0:00.0

Hi guys and welcome back to all read what she's reading. I'm Michaela. I'm Reggie and I'm Kennedy.

0:18.0

Today we're discussing our book club pick for the month of August. Not quite dead yet by Holly Jackson. So if you haven't read that, see you next time. See ya. Also, if you're listening and you haven't joined The Fable, honestly, the Fable is one of my most favorite parts about our book club. And you should

0:40.7

really go join it. I thoroughly enjoy your guys's comments. They make me laugh. They make me think about

0:46.9

things. I seriously love them so much. So please go join it if you haven't yet. Fable, it is linked in our Instagram and our link tree.

0:58.7

Yeah. Yep. I think so. So seriously, go join. Fable is really such a great, great app. Well, and it's really

1:05.7

fun for me because we try not to discuss the book club book together. So then when I have something I want to

1:11.4

talk to somebody about, I turned a fable and you guys are always there for me. Yeah. And also if you're

1:16.6

avid good reads person, you can like sync it up, which is such a cool feature. So anyways,

1:24.6

let's get back to the book, shall we? Oh, I'm excited.

1:45.7

It's about a long time since we've chosen a thriller. How long? Did we choose one last October? Yes. Yes, I think that's the last time we did. Didn't we did. Hidden pictures. Oh, that's right. We did. Right? In pictures. That's the last thriller we've done. Yeah. we'll probably be doing another one for October maybe we'll see

1:46.8

we threw you guys for a loop this month. Honestly, it was a great change of pace for me. I don't know about you guys, but like, I don't know. I just, I think it was fun to read something different than what I've been reading for the last a little bit. It was very refreshing. It was different. Yeah. Should we get into our ratings? Yeah. For those of you who

2:06.7

haven't ever listened to a book club episode, if you're new here, we go through our overall

2:10.6

thoughts ratings, our faves, our least faves, and then a fan cast. That's kind of the layout for

2:15.7

the book club episodes. Mm-hmm. And Michaela thought we should add in another little segment of, would we reread this book? Yeah. So we're going to throw that in somewhere as well. Yeah. But that's kind of the layout. So who wants to go first? Do you guys want me to go first? Sure. Sure. Okay. Volunteering, kind of. Let me start off my overall thoughts by first saying,

2:40.9

I'm in a reading slump. Okay. Every book I'm reading, I'm just kind of like, yeah, okay,

2:47.8

this is me. So for me, I'm going to rate this book, I think, three stars.

2:56.6

For a few different reasons, number one, I half listened to it, half read it. And no hate to the

3:02.9

audiobook narrator, I did not like her voice. Reggie had told me and Michaela and Marco Polo that the voice

3:10.8

sounded like Jojo Siwa and to kind of beware of the audiobook. And normally most audiobook

3:17.5

narrators, it doesn't matter. But this one, I just didn't love the way she would narrate certain characters kind of drove me

3:28.1

crazy. So I do think that's part of the reason why I'm giving this book a lower rating,

3:33.0

which three stars is still great. I typically don't rate thrillers very high. But then also,

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