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Daisy Darker by Alice Feeney

87 reviews

amplawrence's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal death, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Gun violence, Blood, Car accident, Murder, Abandonment, and Alcohol

Moderate: Sexual assault and Sexual content

bookedandbusy's review against another edition

dark mysterious 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? No

5.0

This book was a wild ride and the plot twists left my head spinning.  I absolutely loved it. This was my first Alice Feeney book but it will definitely not be my last. It was spooky and atmospheric! It was suspenseful and left me on the edge of my seat! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Suicide, Blood, Car accident, Murder, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Gore

penandpaper's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

An amazing book! At times, the build up and prose was a bit repetitive, but that’s a common problem with mysteries. This is a book about living in the past and needing to accept it to move on, and it’s very well done. The plot twist could be decisive (I first hated it, then loved it, then had lingering questions), but the book does a good job of balancing comfortable nostalgia with suspense and mystery. I think this is a book you’ll either love or hate from the ending.

I think the mechanics of the final twist could have been done better. Like, why does she stick around but not her relatives? Does the book set her free? What happens to Trixie? As much as I appreciate the sudden twist and the tie in to the beginning, I wish we had more information 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Blood, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body shaming, and Medical content

jennyoli96's review against another edition

challenging mysterious tense medium-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? It's complicated

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Death, Emotional abuse, Terminal illness, Blood, Medical content, and Murder

Moderate: Cursing and Sexual assault

Minor: Animal death and Body shaming

uranaishi's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad 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? It's complicated

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Violence, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Ableism, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Confinement, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicide, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Drug use, Fatphobia, Forced institutionalization, Dementia, Abortion, and Pregnancy

juliaa_929's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Blood and Alcohol

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

cpachet's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad medium-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

3.5

If you like Alice Feeney, this book does not feel like her other works. Typically I find she’s good at surprising me as a reader, but within the first few chapters, I predicted a major twist and spent the rest of the book until the reveal looking for clues to support my theory (I say this not as a brag, but because I was disappointed and felt unmotivated to keep reading). Few of the characters are redeemable

so when they started dying off one by one, I didn’t care and more relished their deaths. When Lily finally kicked it, I rejoiced. What an awful POS. Nana was cool and aside from Daisy, hers was the only death I was saddened by.

It’s a tragic tale of shitty parenting and monster siblings. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Terminal illness, and Murder

Moderate: Animal death, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Blood, Medical content, Car accident, and Abandonment

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

velsbooknook's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense

5.0

This is the perfect Halloween read! I absolutely loved the atmosphere. The eerie and remote cottage just was the perfect setting for this creepy mystery. I adore Alice Feeney's writing style and I'm usually not tabbing thrillers but Daisy Darker was just so incredibly well written. The story feels very lively and I could easily imagine all those different rooms in my head. I love that there is also a little map of the lower floor of the cottage in the book. So cool! 
The only thing I was missing was that I sometimes felt that characters lacked some emotions. With everything that happened that night it sometimes felt like the characters just acknowleged what happened but didn't really react to it. 
The ending was not what I would have expected but I really enjoyed it! Also the feeling of reading the first page after finishing the book was so good! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Domestic abuse, Blood, and Murder