Reviews - Favorite Daughter

213 reviews for:

Favorite Daughter

Morgan Dick

3.76 AVERAGE

mollyrana's review against another edition

4.5

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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kmathers's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Content Warnings

books_and_brews's review against another edition

4.75

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

frances_a's review against another edition

3.0

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

nicmich's review against another edition

2.0

dark informative reflective slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

okayletsread's review against another edition

5.0

challenging emotional reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

5 stars. No notes. You know when you get so lost in the pages of a book that you forget you're reading? That was my experience reading Favorite Daughter.

The premise alone drew me to the book—two half-sisters who unknowingly reunite due to their father's will—but the execution was incredible. The pacing, the honest portrayal of alcoholism, the dynamics between the characters... perfection. And it's a debut novel! I can't wait to read what Morgan Dick reads next.

CW: alcoholism, death of a parent, child neglect, suicide, cancer, infidelity

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larajean1's review against another edition

3.0

emotional funny hopeful medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

rmvann's review against another edition

4.5

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

mrafkin's review against another edition

4.25

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

znvisser's review against another edition

3.5

reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Fun unrealistic plot about two equally dysfunctional halfsisters (unwittingly) getting to know each other. In tone it sometimes feels like a romcom - that is, a platonic one about sisters - but for large pieces of the story, it is also quite heavy, full of dark thoughts and bad choices (

Rybka!

). That contrast was slightly too big for me at times - but it may not have helped that this was my second book in a row where alcoholism was so big a theme.

I appreciated how each sister had to nuance their ideas about the world and themselves after learning from the other, and how the author explored where a person ends versus where it’s actually symptoms of their mental issues talking and acting. Took a while to wrap up (which may have been a more realistic aspect of the plot actually).

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