Reviews tagging 'Death'

Daisy Darker by Alice Feeney

175 reviews

nodogsonthemoon's review against another edition

dark mysterious fast-paced

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

1.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Infidelity, Suicide, Violence, Car accident, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Animal cruelty and Animal death

toomanytbr's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Car accident, and Murder

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicide, Terminal illness, Medical content, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

krisrow's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Death of parent, and Murder

Moderate: Animal death

j_squaredd's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

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

2.0

The prose itself is honestly bad in the first half - clunky dialogue and overly metaphorical descriptions. It gets a little better in the second half; I wonder if this wasn’t an early novel that got taken out of the trunk. Also, I guessed the twist about a third of the way into the book, and if you - like me - like fair play mysteries, it’s absolute BS. I really only kept reading because I love closed circle mysteries enough to read some terrible books about them.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Gore, Gun violence, and Murder

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Chronic illness

memazz's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Death, Sexual assault, and Suicide

chapterobsessed's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-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

5.0

This was my first book by Alice Feeney and it won’t be my last!!

I loved it, all of it!! The family drama the spoiled and entitled characters fighting over who gets what when their Nana passes and then they all start dropping like flies?! SAY LESS!! I loved the poem, reminded me of Freddy Krueger—perfect for spooky season!! And that TWIST at the end!!!!! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Love me a locked door thriller!! This one was fantastic and I can’t wait to read more from this author!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, and Gaslighting

sunsetcity's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Blood, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, and Alcohol

nightlylaments's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

I read this book in one day. It captured my attention on the first line, and I could not put it down. The twist in this book was so crazy.

As I was reading, I thought the killer was corner or Daisy, but then they kept ignoring her, so I had the passing thought of is Daisy dead cause why are they completely ignoring her? I never thought she would actually be dead. I also had a passing thought about Nana being alive, but I never guessed that Trixie was part of it.

. Now I want to reread the book and see if there were any clues that I missed.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death

Minor: Child death

kponturo's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Death, Gun violence, Suicide, Death of parent, and Murder

henyouise's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective tense fast-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

4.25

It feels fitting that I finished this book on Halloween.
It's a great mystery in the style of And Then There Were None (Agatha Christie). And I did not expect the ending, but in a good way. Very spooky read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child death, Death, Gun violence, and Murder

Moderate: Animal death, Chronic illness, Suicide, Terminal illness, Blood, Grief, Car accident, and Injury/Injury detail