“Not Quite Dead Yet” by Holly Jackson: The protagonist makes a life or death decision by heeding an italicized voice in her head, the voice of an alternate personality

“She was listening to her head and her heart, and they both said the same thing…Not now, not now, not now. “I choose the seven days. I want that time. I need it….I’m going to solve my own murder” (1, p. 37).

Comment: The protagonist has to decide whether to put off brain surgery. And she decides by heeding an italicized voice in her head, like a novelist with multiple personality trait, who heeds the voice in her head of an alternate personality. Search "italicized voice” in this blog for past discussions.

Added 8/15/25: Not having heard the voice that the protagonist did, I never became interested in who tried to kill her. But I suppose that many other readers do care.

1. Holly Jackson. Not Quite Dead Yet, New York, Bantam, 2025.