Daisy Darker: A Gripping Psychological Thriller With a Killer Ending You'll Never Forget

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Nana decides this is the ideal time to use her celebrated author skills to poetically express her last will and testament to her gathered family, since she’s been assured by a palm reader that this birthday will be her last. These verses, and the ominous ones that appear written in chalk on the kitchen wall later, cleverly reflect the character deficits of each of the gathered members and portent certain fates for each. I listened to the audiobook and thought the narrator did a wonderful job. Cleverly crafted, well thought out, and perfectly paced, Daisy Darker is an intelligent thriller which never disappointed. Some authors can take the most pedestrian of events and turn them into a riveting narrative. But that didn't happen here. Instead, we have the most mundane of events being presented as it it were the most exciting of nuggets. Daisy is jealous of her sisters.... oooh. There is a boy they all want... oooh. Their parents are mostly absent... oooh. I like family dysfunction as much as the next reader, but I'm not into family melodrama/nondrama.

But Conor said that Daisy would have died soon anyway, because of her heart condition. He suggested they cover up their involvement by throwing Daisy over the cliff. Rose and Lily agree that this is the only choice. They fling her off the edge of the cliff into the sea. Her home on the Cornish coast was the setting for my happiest childhood memories. And my saddest. It was where my sisters and I spent every Christmas and Easter, as well as the long summer holidays after my parents got divorced. I’m not the only one with a broken heart in my family. I don’t know whether my parents, or my sisters, or even Nana’s agent take the palm reading about her imminent death seriously, but I do. Because sometimes the strangest things can predict a person’s future. Take me and my name for example. A children’s book called Daisy Darker’s Little Secret changed my family forever and was a premonition of sorts. Because I do have a secret, and I think it’s time I shared it. Don’t waste your life wishing to be like someone else, decide who you are and be you.” was sage advice from Nana to Daisy. How can you apply this advice to your own life? Isn’t this what we try to impart to our kids all of the time? Be your own person. Be your best self, your own self, and love who you are. Along the line of secrets, do all families have secrets? What secrets have impacted your family? My family must be very boring, because I can’t think of any secrets that affected us. Decades ago, there was the slight question as to whether my great uncle actually married his partner, or just lived with her in harmony to the end of their days…and this was as salacious as my family line ever got. Most of the twists were easily predictable and underwhelming.There was one good eye popper though. I also didn't care for the big reveal - too much telling and providing explanations, but I guess that is one way to explain things and bring closure.

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If only the Darker family had heeded those words, they might not have found themselves on a private, isolated island, at Halloween with a killer amongst them, and when the tide comes in, they will be isolated from the mainland for 8 hours - plenty of time for things to go badly wrong! To say Nana is eccentric would be an understatement. And the rest of the family? Let‘s just say they put the fun in dysFUNctional, if you love dysfunctional families as much as I do. Their dialogue is often hilarious and they do not hesitate to go after each other with their claws out. Clever, sinister, claustrophobic, beguiling and utterly compelling. I was totally hooked from the first sentence.” stars : Many readers are eager to read this book and (almost) everyone describes it as exceptionnal, but I was far from impressed.

Reading Daisy’s childhood memories (I much preferred reading that than the chapters in the present, which I found to be full of repetitions and following the same pattern.) Daisy- bless her heart- was born broken. She has a congenital heart defect and wasn’t expected to live beyond her childhood years. She was never allowed to go anywhere or have the fun her sisters did…Lily ( she should be called LILITH, in my opinion 666 numbers written on her skull) is cold hearted, cutthroat bitch, nastiest human being, a single stay at home- do nothing mom, treating her lovely kid badly! But if I do know more than most, it’s because I read. Books will teach you anything you want to know, and they tend to be more honest than people.” ASPECTS RATING Families are like fingerprints; no two are the same, and they tend to leave their mark. The tapestry of my family has always had a few too many loose threads. It was a little frayed around the edges long before I arrived, and if you look closely enough, you might even spot a few holes. Some people aren’t capable of seeing the beauty in imperfection, but I always loved my nana, my parents, and my sisters. Regardless of how they felt about me, and despite what happened.

Daisy Darker’s family wasted far too many years lying, they spent their final hours together learning lessons before DYING…” In the present, someone notices that all the family’s names have been spelled out with Scrabble tiles. It was not a typical Alice Feeney and there was one aspect of the book that I was really not expecting. I love being surprised!My favorites thrillers are the ones with clever twists AND well-developped characters. After reading 4 of Feeney’s books, I have to face the facts: TO ME, she masters the twists, but not the character development. That’s why I never rated one of her books higher than 4 stars. Daisy Darker makes no exception even if I love reading about dysfunctional families. And that's indeed what happens for Daisy Darker's family, assembled via Nana's wishes for the first time in years. Around two-thirds of the way in, the book took a turn I wasn’t expecting but should have been. I went in expecting the usual Alice Feeney, but it wasn’t. I did really appreciate that there were clues. Clues I missed. If there are clues, I can’t be mad.

Daisy recalls an incident in 1986 where she ruined a dress that belonged to Rose after she caught Rose and Connor kissing. Victim #4: NancyI received an ARC of this novel from the publisher through Edelweiss. It was my pleasure to read and review this latest offering from the very talented Alice Feeney. During the course of the evening, eighty-year-old Nana announces the contents of her will early, so everyone understands what to expect after her passing. Basically, everything goes to her great-granddaughter, Trixie. Why is this interesting? The first murder in the book happens around high tide, meaning that the Darker family is trapped in the house, cut off from civilization, for the next six hours. Today I’m so excited to be bringing you my review for Daisy Darker by Alice Feeney, a book I read this month with some buddies from TWR, and a book that surprised and enthralled me throughout.