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A review by kblincoln
Daughters of Darkness by Meg Hafdahl
4.0
Edwin and Daphne should be living a happy, but scarred, ever after considering the events at the end of the first book. Despite having escaped Willoughby with lives, if not bodies, intact, the happy couple can't stay for too long.
The dead are rising, and Daphne knows that whatever she did before she left Willoughby, if she could just remember, is part of the cause. Daphne and Edwin will have to face their worst fears--again-- back in Willoughby before loved ones are hurt forever.
Daphne is changed in this book. She still slips a mint or two, but she has become noticeably less passive and less (dare I say whiny) in this book. I enjoyed how much she anticipated the way Willoughby activated her latent powers. Edwin is bit less in focus possibly as a result. He's still the strong, stalwart presence, but the true star of this book isn't either of them-- its a young Doris Woodhouse who is grappling both with her own burdensome power and the desire to protect a young daughter.
Which of the dead can they trust? And will Doris' choices force Edwin and Daphne into an impossible quest? The book ends on a rather momentous cliffhanger, so beware. While the parts with Doris Woodhouse truly shine, the latter half of the book I got a bit impatient with Daphne and Edwin kind of milling about while obviously terrible things were happening. Still, what marks Hafdahl's writing as both creepy and emotionally complex also is apparent here in the way Daphne grapples with newer problems in this second book.
The dead are rising, and Daphne knows that whatever she did before she left Willoughby, if she could just remember, is part of the cause. Daphne and Edwin will have to face their worst fears--again-- back in Willoughby before loved ones are hurt forever.
Daphne is changed in this book. She still slips a mint or two, but she has become noticeably less passive and less (dare I say whiny) in this book. I enjoyed how much she anticipated the way Willoughby activated her latent powers. Edwin is bit less in focus possibly as a result. He's still the strong, stalwart presence, but the true star of this book isn't either of them-- its a young Doris Woodhouse who is grappling both with her own burdensome power and the desire to protect a young daughter.
Which of the dead can they trust? And will Doris' choices force Edwin and Daphne into an impossible quest? The book ends on a rather momentous cliffhanger, so beware. While the parts with Doris Woodhouse truly shine, the latter half of the book I got a bit impatient with Daphne and Edwin kind of milling about while obviously terrible things were happening. Still, what marks Hafdahl's writing as both creepy and emotionally complex also is apparent here in the way Daphne grapples with newer problems in this second book.