Scan barcode
A review by what_heather_loves
Daisy Darker by Alice Feeney
challenging
dark
mysterious
sad
tense
medium-paced
"'Before I begin, I'll remind you what I wrote at the start of my favourite book: The future is a promise we can still choose whether to keep. The past is a promise we've already broken. I meant those words, and believe that the present is my only chance to protect this family's future.'"
With shades of And Then There Were None, mentioned by characters in the book, the Darker family are dark indeed. Meeting for Nana Darker's 80th Birthday in her gothic house on her Cornish island, after years of avoiding one another, we get to know the Darker family.
Dysfunctional doesn't begin to cover how they have treated one another over the years, which the reader learns from Daisy's perspective, in both flashbacks and present day. Chapters count down the hour until the tide goes out in the morning and they can leave, combined with key events in the family's history, evidenced by VHS tapes that keep appearing.
A locked room murder mystery and a thriller, it is pacy with cliffhangers, designed to keep the reader enthralled and curious. I had my suspicions about what was happening and who was behind it, some I guessed right and some wrong. A gripping and atmospheric thriller, for fans of locked room mysteries, I read this in a couple of days.
With shades of And Then There Were None, mentioned by characters in the book, the Darker family are dark indeed. Meeting for Nana Darker's 80th Birthday in her gothic house on her Cornish island, after years of avoiding one another, we get to know the Darker family.
Dysfunctional doesn't begin to cover how they have treated one another over the years, which the reader learns from Daisy's perspective, in both flashbacks and present day. Chapters count down the hour until the tide goes out in the morning and they can leave, combined with key events in the family's history, evidenced by VHS tapes that keep appearing.
A locked room murder mystery and a thriller, it is pacy with cliffhangers, designed to keep the reader enthralled and curious. I had my suspicions about what was happening and who was behind it, some I guessed right and some wrong. A gripping and atmospheric thriller, for fans of locked room mysteries, I read this in a couple of days.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death of parent
Moderate: Alcoholism
Minor: Child death