A review by jg93
Daisy Haites: The Great Undoing by Jessa Hastings

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

3.75

I love being back with these characters, but unfortunately I feel like this book suffered from the trend of jumping back in time to see prior book’s events from different character’s POV.

As in Daisy Haites 1, I loved seeing Daisy and Christian’s story, but I felt like Julian (and Magnolia, as a result) really overshadowed them here. I didn’t really feel like it was necessary to see pretty much all of Julian and Magnolia’s interactions from the prior book in his POV. I feel like a good amount of his chapters could have been cut in order to see more of Daisy and Christian, or even just Daisy and Julian having more interactions. I felt like I had a pretty good understanding of how he felt towards Magnolia just from their interactions in The Long Way Home. There was some payoff at the very end, but I just feel like too many pages were spent rehashing the prior book, and I actually got annoyed at Julian and Magnolia (and I’ve loved both characters in prior books!)

I’m hoping that maybe some of the things that bothered me will have payoff in Into the Dark, though. I still enjoyed the book overall, but wish we had spent more time with the central couple. 
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