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Daisy Haites by Jessa Hastings

10 reviews

angeliquescollection's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

This is like 5+ stars. 

I’ve been reading this through a recent breakup so it hit waaay harder. So many quotes I resonated with. So much emotion I was experiencing in my real life. I felt Daisy’s pain. I’m living it.
This book broke me but honestly I’m happy it did. I think I needed it in a way. 

I think in every Daisy pov, I shed a tear or just completely bawled my eyes out. And Christian… poor Christian. 

Omg Julian. I have to see what happens next. I’m going to take a little break to mend my little heart lol but these characters, I feel in my soul. 

I would say I like the Daisy Haites side of it all over Magnolia Parks but I love the whole group still. 

The ending tore me to pieces though.

I wanted Daisy and Christian to end up together so badly. But life happens, and it could be right person wrong time. And Daisy deserves normalcy.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Sexual content, Alcohol, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Moderate: Murder and Alcoholism

Minor: Kidnapping, Drug use, Infidelity, and Panic attacks/disorders

elizabeth_helmer's review

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, Cursing, Drug use, Toxic relationship, Violence, Murder, Death of parent, and Gun violence

Moderate: Sexual assault

Minor: Homophobia

raegandrust's review against another edition

dark emotional funny mysterious tense slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping and Violence

Moderate: Alcoholism, Death of parent, Murder, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, Self harm, Gun violence, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Infidelity, Trafficking, Child death, and Adult/minor relationship

wet_towlette's review against another edition

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

1.0

I was genuinely shocked when I was reading the acknowledgments and saw that this book had an editor. Like actually I'm not even joking. I think this is the most misogynistic and sexist book I've ever read. I am baffled that people can read this and feel even a semblance of enjoyment. I cannot effectively express how God-awful this book is

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Grief, Gun violence, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Medical content, Murder, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Violence, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Confinement, Drug use, Homophobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Trafficking, and Vomit

katiareadz's review

adventurous challenging emotional fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

4.0

Liked it more than the first one. But in my opinion some events were not as serious as the author made them to be. Therefore the characters had some extreme reactions so the book has more drama . That was my problem with the first book as well.Some things just felt too forced and came out of nowhere. Still enjoyable tho. Also loved Julian's pov. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Alcohol, Sexual assault, and Murder

Moderate: Death of parent, Death, Grief, Medical trauma, and Violence

Minor: Trafficking and Kidnapping

marypetrushko's review

adventurous challenging emotional tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Alcoholism, and Gun violence

stienelodts's review

emotional medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Alcoholism, and Drug use

rabiyar7's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful 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

I cannot express how much I loved this book!!!!!!! 
Christian Hemmes is my fave person ever and I can't imagine reading one more book before getting back to Daisy and Christian ughhh! The way Daisy thinks and expresses her thoughts about Christian, especially her fan girl moments, are so relatable. I much prefer being in Daisy and Christian's heads than Magnolia and BJ's because Daisy and Christian actually make sense together.
I did not expect the plot twists, I did not expect to love it like I do. The writing is phenomenal and I could read anything by Jessa Hastings.
Totally random but the mention of Clayhall and Barkingside like that's not so close to where I live in London and aren't areas I visit all the time?? Everything about this book is my fave! 
Also, I know some people don't like the footnotes but they're so easy to read on a Kindle.

Reread 11/06/23: Read my review above and just know that I concur x100.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Gore, Grief, Alcoholism, Death, Death of parent, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Violence, Blood, Child death, and Alcohol

Moderate: Sexual harassment, Self harm, and Panic attacks/disorders

hellovivi_'s review

dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

2.0

this book was truly awful, the idea and characters were great, but the plot and execution were not. i honestly don’t know why i continued reading this series it is truly awful and i struggled to get through it, i just wanted it to be over. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Suicide attempt, Addiction, Alcoholism, Death of parent, Drug use, Grief, Medical trauma, and Sexual content

savbowmer's review against another edition

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