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nazifaislam 's review for:
Daisy Darker
by Alice Feeney
Feeney draws comparisons between this story’s plot and Agatha Christie’s ‘And Then There Were None’ directly in the text, which only heightens the incredible disparity between Christie’s work and this very lackluster murder mystery.
I love a good twist. And for a twist to be good, it has to make sense. That’s Mystery Writing 101. The twists in this novel are hard to believe and rely a lot on characters being incompetent or unobservant. I didn’t feel like the pieces of the plot suddenly came together really well after the reveals; instead, I really struggled to suspend my disbelief in the face of gaping plot holes.
And to go back to Christie: I really enjoy how Christie manages to flesh out her supporting characters so well in her relatively short novels. In ‘Daisy Darker,’ (also a pretty short novel) the characters felt hackneyed and flat and I didn’t really enjoy spending time with them. No one was very interesting and I didn’t really care about any of the victims. On top of that, I’d argue that the characters in this novel had weirdly muted emotional responses to the deaths of their own family members. And if they barely care, why would I?
I had high hopes for this novel and it just did not deliver. I hate when I finish a book feeling annoyed. And this book definitely annoyed me.
I love a good twist. And for a twist to be good, it has to make sense. That’s Mystery Writing 101. The twists in this novel are hard to believe and rely a lot on characters being incompetent or unobservant. I didn’t feel like the pieces of the plot suddenly came together really well after the reveals; instead, I really struggled to suspend my disbelief in the face of gaping plot holes.
And to go back to Christie: I really enjoy how Christie manages to flesh out her supporting characters so well in her relatively short novels. In ‘Daisy Darker,’ (also a pretty short novel) the characters felt hackneyed and flat and I didn’t really enjoy spending time with them. No one was very interesting and I didn’t really care about any of the victims. On top of that, I’d argue that the characters in this novel had weirdly muted emotional responses to the deaths of their own family members. And if they barely care, why would I?
I had high hopes for this novel and it just did not deliver. I hate when I finish a book feeling annoyed. And this book definitely annoyed me.