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Daisy Darker by Alice Feeney

59 reviews

aichaa's review against another edition

medium-paced

• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying

Moderate: Alcoholism and Medical content

Minor: Sexual assault

locust1266's review against another edition

dark emotional sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? N/A
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

This book took my heart and cut it to many pieces. I really liked the book and although I kind of guessed the plot twist I was still shocked . I also really really loved daisy's character . 


<Spoiler>
I cried when we learned that they murdered her . I think a big part of why I loved this book as much as I did was because of daisy like I wanted her to get her happy ending so bad. I do think this book has a lot of useless info tho and although most of the plot threads were cleard up there are  still some things I'm iffy Abt . Anyway I loved this book at first I was annoyed at daisy's nativity and that she was so inactive? But now that I know the whole plot twist it makes sense to me .

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Sexual assault, and Murder

Moderate: Chronic illness

Minor: Alcoholism and Animal cruelty

zosiablue's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

OK. When I got to the end, my first thought was, THIS IS LUDICROUS. It's a classic locked room Agatha Christie homage but as each character dies, NO ONE has the right sized reaction. I mean, people keep dropping dead, and the alive ones might cry a little but...if my whole family died every hour on the hour while 80 clocks on a wall clanged each time I might have a stronger reaction?! And then the Sixth Sense ending! But. But! If you read it like a absolute terrifying horror shitshow about a bunch of certifiably psychotic people out psychotic-ing each other until there's nothing left but a seaside mansion full of gory, bloody bodies and one sad teenage ghost - then we've got ourselves a ballgame.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Blood, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal death

Minor: Sexual assault, Car accident, and Death of parent

ariel_marie's review against another edition

mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism and Drug abuse

Minor: Child death and Sexual assault

savvyrosereads's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

Rating: 4.5/5 stars

Daisy Darker’s family returns to Seaglass for Nana’s 80th birthday…but then they begin dying off one by one while trapped on the island at high tide, and family secrets come to light that will change everything.

This is my favorite of Alice Feeney’s novels so far! I’m a sucker for an And Then There Were None homage, and the setting/atmosphere of this one is absolutely perfect—seaside house, cut off from the world by a storm and high tide, and lots and lots of dead bodies piling up over one extra-creepy Halloween night. There’s also some very eerie poetry that really adds to the tension overall.

Most of all, I absolutely loved the writing style of this one—there are so many absolutely beautiful poignant quotes and brilliant details. And, while I won’t say more for fear of spoilers, I absolutely did not see the main twist coming (and audibly shouted at my book when it happened).

Highly recommend this to all thriller fans!

Recommended to anyone, but especially if you like: locked room mysteries; dark family sagas; creepy seaside vibes

CW: Lots of death/blood/violence; discussions of terminal illness; discussion of animal death; physical and emotional abuse; suicide

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal death, Bullying, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Suicide, Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, Murder, and Alcohol

Minor: Sexual assault

kitaface's review against another edition

mysterious medium-paced

• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

I'm always annoyed when a mystery constantly brings up "what happened that night" through the whole book. Obviously a mystery is going to hold back information, but it's obnoxious to repeatedly refer to "the incident that changed everything". 

Especially when in this case it honestly could have said that Daisy was dead from the start! She could have still been a ghost worried about her family being murdered with very little changes to the story. Though tbh I was not thrilled by the supernatural twist, so 🤷🏻

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Chronic illness, Toxic relationship, and Murder

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship and Sexual assault

theimposter's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Sexual assault, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcoholism and Suicide

tharumi's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, and Death

Moderate: Sexual assault, Suicide, Car accident, and Death of parent

growintogardens's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.5

Feeney is good at making a creepy atmosphere, and I could visualize the house really well. I didn't love the twist.

It was something I thought about early, but dismissed it. I honestly think this would have been more enjoyable if she had survived instead of becoming a ghost, and lost the memory of the accident. It would have been more creepy and crazy imo, for them to still kill the family members because of Daisy's abuse, which is what I thought before the ghost reveal.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Toxic relationship, and Murder

Moderate: Alcoholism, Bullying, Chronic illness, Death, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Violence, Car accident, Death of parent, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Gun violence, Pedophilia, Suicide, Grief, and Pregnancy

sarahmae531's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

This book was a rollercoaster ride. There were times I couldn’t put it down and other times I couldn’t get myself to pick it up. 
The last maybe third of the book flew by for me. I had a few predictions on what the twist would be and I didn’t fully figure it out, which is always nice. 
It loses a few points for me just because I’m not a big fan of what the final twist was in books

(i.e. a character being a ghost but somehow one special person can see them)

but I thought that for the “trope” (if you can really call it that), it was well executed, well explained, and kept me on the edge of my seat towards the end. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Infidelity, Sexual assault, and Medical trauma