Daisy Darker
2022
Ratings73
Average rating3.9
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Ratings73
Average rating3.9
The New York Times bestselling Queen of Twists returns...with a family reunion that leads to murder. After years of avoiding each other, Daisy Darker's entire family is assembling for Nana's 80th birthday party in Nana's crumbling gothic house on a tiny tidal island. Finally back together one last time, when the tide comes in, they will be cut off from the rest of the world for eight hours. The family arrives, each of them harboring secrets. Then at the stroke of midnight, as a storm rages, Nana is found dead. And an hour later, the next family member follows... Trapped on an island where someone is killing them one by one, the Darkers must reckon with their present mystery as well as their past secrets, before the tide comes in and all is revealed. With a wicked wink to Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None, Daisy Darker's unforgettable twists will leave readers reeling. "Wow! Echoes of Christie's And Then There Were None but turned into something wonderfully original and wrapped in a genuinely creepy dysfunctional family fairy-tale of a novel, this takes Feeney to the next level. I LOVED IT!" --Sarah Pinborough, bestselling author of Behind Her Eyes and Insomnia
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Wow. I felt a little bored by this book until i was about 60% done. I expected to give it 3 stars. There was nothing happening and i was unimpressed by the writing (which was sad because i LOVE Alice's other books). AND THEN the ending happened and i realized everything i missed in the first 60% and i went back reading as much as i could absolutely marveling at Alice's ability to make that first 69% work. WOW. Holy shit. I have been manipulated in the best way possible and i want to re read the entire book to feel in awe at everything that i couldn't have picked up on until i knew the ending. WOW.
Also an agatha stan and loved the nod to her. Knew the red herring was somewhere as it was in and then there were none.
I worked out the twist somewhere around chapter 2, but that really didn't diminish my enjoyment of the book. It feels like a better written Lucy Foley, and the And Then There Were None influence is apparent. The setting and the characters were very good, and my only complaint was that the reveal felt very rushed, like too much was being explained at once.
Man, this was going so well until the reveal. Then... oof, not my thing at all. I feel like parts of the book don't make sense with the reveal, but I'd have to reread and I don't care enough. Good start, didn't care for the explanation. :/
(Guessing on the start date cuz I forgot to log it...)
WHATTTT?! That was my biggest reaction to the twists in this book. Being a thriller lover, I can usually predict a twist, but I honestly didn't see these coming.
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