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Daisy Haites by Jessa Hastings

30 reviews

savbowmer's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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: Gun violence, Trafficking, Sexual content, Physical abuse, Infidelity, Drug use, Self harm, Toxic relationship, Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail, Drug abuse, Violence, Medical content, Toxic friendship, Mental illness, Death of parent, Murder, Death, Alcohol, Addiction, Grief, Gore, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, Child abuse, Alcoholism, Cursing, and Blood

isabel_hanna's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-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

4.75

Not quite as addictive as magnolia parks but Jessa Hastings has some sort of secret sauce in her books. I never can stay up late reading a book and I literally could not make myself go to bed with the last 30% of my book. These characters are seriously messed up morally gray people and yet I am so invested? I think I hate them but I love to read the mess they’re making. I highlight and tab these books like no other. Her metaphors just get me every time. 

Overall takeaways: this book is about bad people doing bad toxic things - it’s entertaining af but do not read if you are going to be annoyed by that lol 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Murder, Sexual assault, Toxic friendship, Death of parent, Violence, Blood, and Toxic relationship

deelightfulreads's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cursing, Injury/Injury detail, Gun violence, Death, Kidnapping, Alcohol, Violence, Blood, Body horror, Grief, Toxic relationship, Death of parent, Sexual content, and Murder

lavenderbooks_'s review against another edition

emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

3.75

didn't love this as much as magnolia parks as i felt the chemistry between christian and daisy was lacking. and i felt this book was written in a rushed way because there was just so much going on and a lot of the relationships in this book didn't feel as well fleshed out and developed. i loved daisy but i found the footnote stuff a bit unnecessary, but i understand why it was included, however, its purpose didn't really serve for me. i am so excited to see more of julian haites and hopefully, in the next few books, we get better development of daisy and christian's relationship. their whole relationship was confusing to me and the love that they felt for each was a bit unconvincing but overall, i had a fun time and definitely will still continue on with the rest of the series. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Death of parent, Violence, Blood, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Murder and Kidnapping

annagwritesandreads's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

**Check the content warnings for the book before diving in**

This is a 4.5/5 star read for me. I will say, I like Daisy was more likeable to me than Magnolia was. 

General description: You follow a love story and a gang storyline that will have you engrossed. You've heard of the Haites from the 1st Mangolia Parks book, but now we get to know them intimately. Daisy and Julian Haites have two different desires (Julian wants to keep his world safe, while Daisy wants everything to be normal). One person brings those desires to the forefront: Christian Hemmes. That's right, from the 1st book, we also hear Christian's entire perspective. Can Daisy and Christian find love, escaping the gang world, or will Julian do whatever he can to keep Daisy safe within his world?

The good:
- I felt this book actually had an underlying plot with Julian's perspective. I liked having that additional aspect that was lacking in the 1st Magnolia Parks book.
- Daisy as a whole is my favorite character. I admire her so much.
- I liked having a new love story, instead of the repetition of BJ/Magnolia's story.

The bad:
- I think with three perspectives, it takes a while to get into the book even though we know the universe, so the beginning was a tough bit to get through.

Overall: If you liked the first Magnolia Parks book, can get through the slow-ish beginning, and want a little more action? You'll enjoy this book. If you don't like pop culture references, this book won't be for you.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Kidnapping, and Blood

midnightrose_reads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.75

Daisy Haites is the second book in the Magnolia Parks Universe. It follows Daisy Haites a second year medical student and her love interest Christian Hemmes who you would have met in the first book. It also follows Daisy’s brother Julian Haites who is a crime boss. 

Daisy is a badass who is easy to root for. She’s trying to balance her normal life of being a university medical student, with being the sister of one of the most powerful gang lords in England. Not to mention her off again, on again relationship with her childhood sweetheart, Romeo. Christian is struggling with his lingering feelings for Magnolia, and his new burgeoning feelings for Daisy. Even though he’s a gang lord as well doesn’t mean that he and Daisy are without conflict. Julian tries to do right by his sister, but will his crime lifestyle finally come between them? 

This is another emotional read from this series and I can’t wait to read the next one.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Gore, Homophobia, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Medical content, Grief, Blood, Gun violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Alcohol, Cursing, Death, Murder, Medical trauma, and Sexual content

Minor: Child death and Panic attacks/disorders

mackshill's review against another edition

dark emotional

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

didn’t know how i would like this one in comparison to MP but holy shit i liked it 100x better. i loved daisy and christian was so fucking hot and sexy. i loved the plot and the other characters and i really love how this one went along the same timeline as the first. if jessa hastings would write a book for every one of the characters i would demolish them. her books are so long (which i love) and so detailed and her writing is so incredible and i just adore it. i especially loved how we got daisy’s, christian’s, and julian’s perspective in the book because i feel like it really rounded it out. this has easily jumped to my favorites list. i literally can’t wait to read the next DH but i will force myself to read the next MP first

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Violence, and Gun violence

Moderate: Blood, Death of parent, and Sexual violence

Minor: Kidnapping, Child abuse, Medical content, and Trafficking

just_klaudia's review against another edition

emotional sad slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Blood, Murder, Addiction, Alcohol, Panic attacks/disorders, Grief, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Cursing, Death of parent, Death, and Toxic relationship

kbea88's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

Will I ever recommend this series to someone I care about? Absolutely not. Will I continue to read every book in this series? Absolutely, yes.

If someone described the plot of these books to me, I would consider their taste questionable, but I CANNOT STOP. I won’t be stopped. These books are exactly the fly-on-the-wall drama that I live for. 

Also, whoever said they’re a Christian Hemmes apologist for life? Solidarity, sister. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Grief, Violence, Blood, Cursing, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Kidnapping, Gun violence, Infidelity, Death, Injury/Injury detail, and Murder

Moderate: Homophobia

toofondofbooks_'s review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny informative lighthearted sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

This book had everything that I loved about MP1 and more. I fucking love the MPU because it is just pure escapism for me. I lose myself in the pages and for awhile I simply don't think about the things that are hurting me in my real life and cry over these fictional british messes. It's everything to me. The books aren't objectively perfect (no book is, not even most of my favorites), and you're entitled to your opinion, but they make ME happy.

With that portion out of the way - this book took me a little longer to read because 1. it's a big boi and 2. I just started a new job and I'm tired all the time. However, I loved my time with Daisy. I thought the three unique perspectives (Daisy, Christian & Julian) were intriguing and often heartbreaking as well as soooo funny. I loved getting to know the characters in Daisy's world better, as well as getting to know Daisy herself. There is so much about her to love, and like the other characters - a lot about her to hate, but that's what I love even more about her. She's just a person living in extraordinary circumstances, and really, that's what all of these characters are. They are so messy and half the time they're doing things you can't stand, but you still want them to win.

I am both excited and afraid to read MP: The Long Way Home. 😂

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Drug abuse, Murder, Death, Death of parent, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Gun violence, Sexual content, Blood, Medical content, Misogyny, Kidnapping, Homophobia, and Drug use

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Domestic abuse, Trafficking, and Child death

Minor: Sexual assault, War, Animal cruelty, and Slavery