Source: personal purchase. This is a review of my reading experience.
Daisy Darker is a mystery/thriller by Alice Feeney.
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.
Daisy Darker is a messed up book.
Daisy Darker is a story like
And Then There Were None and Clue where the characters get picked off
one by one. This is all in the synopsis so I guess it's okay to also say
this in my review. I absolutely loved And Then There Were None, and I
enjoyed Daisy Darker, too. In Daisy Darker, the Darker family is
reuniting at their family home Seaglass. They are on an island where
when the tide comes in there's no way to leave the island for eight
hours until the tide goes back out. It's the perfect setting for one of
these trapped thriller novels.
I saw someone on Booktube the
other day say when a reviewer says they can't really talk about a book
because it would be spoilers that means the reviewer didn't actually
read the book (lol). That's a weird hot take, and you are just going to
have to believe that I read Daisy Darker because this is one of those
books that you can't really talk about without spoiling something. Maybe
that Booktuber needs to read more thrillers?
If you enjoy messed
up family secrets that slowly get revealed over the course of a book, I
recommend you give Daisy Darker a try.
I read my first Alice
Feeney last year when I read Rock Paper Scissors. I was anxious to read
more books by Feeney and was really excited that Daisy Darker was a
Book-of-the-Month selection this year and that it was getting such great
reviews from readers that I trust. I love Feeney's characters and her
twists and her suspense. I find her books impossible to believe, but I
have a great time reading them and I don't want to put them down.
Daisy
Darker is a thriller, but it's also horror–adjacent. I recommend it to
readers like me who love horror and love thrillers and love reading
those books that straddle the line as horror-adjacent.
4/5 stars
⭐⭐⭐⭐★
That first sentence had me. I'm loving stories lately that are a little twisted. Plus the whole tide thing. I mean, yes. I guess I didn't ealize this was the author of Rock Paper either. I'm definitely going to read this.
ReplyDeleteI think you would like this, Greg!
DeleteI really enjoyed this one! I didn't even care that it was a little over the top and unrealistic, I just had so much fun with the locked room mystery and the atmosphere.
ReplyDeleteIt was so unrealistic - but yes, it was still fun! I need to read more locked room mysteries.
DeleteI loved this! It was my first Alice Feeney and now I need to read her other books.
ReplyDeleteShe's an auto buy for me now.
DeleteI haven't read it but it sounds good.
ReplyDeleteI've only read one Feeney novel (I Know Who You Are), but I really didn't like it. Trusted thriller readers like yourself have had great things to say about her more recent books, so I'm eager to give her another shot!
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