#daisy darker

[revolted-nycto]

im reading this book called "daisy darker" and i immediately thought of donnie darko so now she's just mtf donnie in my head now

[littlestsouthernkink]

I’ve read over 75 thriller and horror books. Here are my favorites without any reasons (just because I’m too lazy to add reviews other than I have them all 5/5)

A few more of my favorites

And a few more

[sapphiretears444]

i love the feeling of starting a new book! 📖

[glitterfairy-21225]

Daisy Darker is really just Penelope Featherington in different font, huh?

[the---hermit]

Daisy Darker by Alice Feeney

I am writing this right after I have finished the audiobook, and I have yet to understand how I feel about this book. I am actually writing this review right away in the hopes it will help me figure out how to rate this novel. This is a thriller book that was inspired by And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie (which is my favourite murder myster novel), I picked it up knowing only this and to be honest going in blind was a great choice. Of course knowing very well the book it takes inspiration from made a few things predictable, but it was overall enjoyable.

In case you don't want to be like me and want to know a bit more about the plot here it is: the Darker family is a pretty disfunctional family, most of them have been ignoring each other for years, but they all come together for Nana's 80th birthday. Nana was a very successful children's books author, she is an eccentric lady who lives on a small tidal island. This means that on certain moments of the day the island is totally cut off from the rest of the courntry. As the night unfolds things will get pretty scary for the Darker family as they have to deal with who they are and their secrets.

I have a lot to say. Firstly if you know anything about me, you'll know that probably my favourite trope for this kind of books is when a small number of characters are isolated in some way from the rest of the world. It's surely an obsession that started with Christie's novel, and for some reason I just love the vibe. I must say it was done pretty well in this novel, you can see the increasing panic of the characters as things progress during the night. I was a bit intimidated by the fact that this book is inspired by one of my favourite novels, I didn't want to read it with a bias and not appreaciate it. But overall the book is self aware enough of this bond with the classic, and I appreciated it. As I said I saw a few twists coming, but a couple of things I really couldn't tell and I was pleasently surprised, because I didn't think this book could shock me as it did (more in the spoilery section below the cut). My main criticsm is that the characters felt very flat. They are really one dimentional, there's no growth for any character in the past or present, and I feel like each one of them has one or two characteristics and that's it, nothing more. There's the self obsessed mean sister who feels like a middle school bully trapped in the body of a 30-something year old, the divorced parents who hold grudges of past decades, and so on. Daisy, the main character, spends the entire book whining about how no one loves her, and it's honestly really annoying after a while. It gets too repetitive on that point, so much that you start not to empathize with her but being very much annoyed. The book started a bit slowly for my taste, but when it picked up its pace it was really intiguing, and I feel like the audiobook helped a lot. It was definitely the right way for me to enjoy this book. I am not sure yet about how I feel about the big twists, but I overall enjoyed it. I don't feel like giving a super high rating to this book because of what I said about the characters, and I would definitely recommend the audiobook version of this novel.

I read this for the thirller prompt of the jumbo reading challenge.

spoilery thoughts under the cut!

This section contains spoilers so read at your own risk.

I feel like writing a spoilery section to talk about how I felt about the twists, I don't always do this, but I am in the mood for it today. So, knowing And Then There Were None very well I knew I had to look out for a character that only pretended to die, and I got the feeling it was Nana very early on. I will admit my main suspect for the murders was Daisy until the very end, but I also had a feeling about Trixie hidying something, especially after she was saved (as well as the fact that she's a kid, so for the entire book I had a feeling the author would find a way not to have her murdered). The two twists that actually got me were the fact that Conor is actually Trixie's father, I was shocked by it. You definitely have all the hints to get it but I didn't see it coming at all. And the fact that Daisy was actually killed. This is the main thing I don't know how to feel about, I wasn't expecting anything supernatural and the whole I have been a ghost all along thing sometimes feels a bit cheap? As I said I am not sure yet whether I like this twist or not. I didn't love how everyone in this family is obsessed by Conor, but that also has a lot to do with what I was saying about the characters feeling really flat. As you can tell I am still a bit torn on my opinions of this novel.

[cheyconicbookreviews]

I just listened to Daisy Darker by Alice Feeney and needed to make a piccrew of how I saw them. Obsessed.

[thecreatureoftheshadows]

“A mother’s least favourite child always knows that’s what they are.”

- Daisy Darker | Alice Feeney

[bangbangwhoa]

books I’ve read in 2022 📖 no. 080

Daisy Darker by Alice Feeney

“Pity fades with age, hate is lost and found, but guilt can last a lifetime.”