Daisy Darker: A Gripping Psychological Thriller With a Killer Ending You'll Never Forget

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Trigger warnings: drinking and alcohol abuse, talk about an alcoholic going into rehab, abuse because of drink, violence, murder, death, gore, guns, poison, bullying, heart condition, dangerous family secrets, sexual content. It will soon be Nana's 80th birthday and the countdown has started. Not only until the birthday party, but until the next murder. Daisy Dark is above average, not quite at the level of Gone Girl. It wasn’t a chore to read, but it also did not keep me up until 3 am because I couldn’t put it down.

A sinisterly satisfying play on Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None...Readers will be intrigued by the setting, the action, and the question of whether or not they can trust narrator Daisy.” Lily, the middle child, is their mother’s favorite. She lives with Mom and her daughter, Trixie-the-heir-apparent, but doesn’t have a job or much in the way of prospects. She always wanted whatever Rose had and found Daisy to be a pain. The story is narrated by granddaughter, Daisy Darker, Nana’s favorite, a baby born with a heart condition which caused her to die eight times before the age of thirteen.-something she said she would be concerned about-if she were a cat. 😼Then Nana says she can now see Daisy so it is time to say goodbye. Nooo…. Nana has poisoned herself. The story unfolds through the eyes of the main character and narrator, the titular Daisy, who relays both current events and traumatic memories with a general sense of remove. But for a book like this to be truly effective, Feeney needed to crank the dial on atmosphere, amping up the way foreboding swirls of mist crawled along the shore outside, or how the damp, dark interiors of Seaglass start to close in on its inhabitants as the night goes on. Instead we get scant mentions of the surroundings at the outset, which are soon lost in a swarm of interpersonal squabbles between Daisy and her older sisters, Rose and Lily. In my opinion, the best part of this book will be the one-liners (which we never usually expect in thrillers) told by the characters in multiple parts of this book. I think there are more than fifty one-liners in this book. I found each one informative, and these pearls of wisdom are placed in correct intervals and correct areas in the most effective way by the author. I will share a few of them here. When Nana is turning 80-years old on Halloween and invites you to visit her at her tired, gothic-feeling home on a tiny, tidal island, you go. Even if you can't stand the rest of your family, you go.

Fans of Agatha Christie’s classic And Then There Were None will savor this, but Feeney makes it so much more than a witty homage.” I received an ARC of this novel from the publisher through Edelweiss. It was my pleasure to read and review this latest offering from the very talented Alice Feeney. A palm reader once told Nana that she wouldn’t live past 80 years old. Convinced this is her last birthday, she invites her estranged family members to Sea Glass to celebrate. Final twist 1: I read And Then There Were None... I remember the ending... To compare Daisy Darker to this classic is a spoiler in the blurb! So, yes, I was expecting the culprit to be a fake victim (and my money was on Nana since the beginning).

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But then the members of the Darker family start dying one by one. At first, I really wasn’t sure what I thought of the book. But the more I thought about it, the more I loved Daisy Darker.

As for the storyline, Daisy Darker has a lot going on. Usually, murder mysteries only have one murder, but this has more than one. There are also some secrets or unknowns that we are trying to figure out. Feeney’s characters are complex; they aren’t all good or all bad. And there was some humor sprinkled in. Everyone in the family has a mysterious character and ulterior motives. They will be disconnected from the outside world for eight hours during the tide. Told from the point of view of Daisy, there is family drama galore and many surprises. One thing I figured out in advance and the other major surprise I should have figured out but I was just going along for the ride, so I was thrilled when all was revealed. As the hours pass with the family stranded with no means to communicate with the outside world, and then the bodies start accumulating--and then disappearing--it's difficult to know who is lying and who is telling the truth, and that's one of the most exciting parts of this mysterious tale.Thank you to Macmillan Audio and NetGalley who provided me with a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. All the thoughts and opinions are my own. I would say that this book is both character driven and plot driven because everything is so complex. There is such an evolution in what you think or suspect of the various characters and it’s just not a clean cut story at all. I loved seeing the plot unfold and take drastic twists and turns and I also really enjoyed reading about the characters, their lies, their secrets and the ultimate reveal at the end which I really did not see coming. And that's indeed what happens for Daisy Darker's family, assembled via Nana's wishes for the first time in years. Daisy cherished Trixie. Discuss how this adoration contributed to the plot. Daisy was very close to Trixie, and from the beginning of the novel, the reader was left to see them as a close-knit team. Well, that's not necessarily true, Trixie, Lily's often-neglected daughter, is always kind to her Aunt Daisy, so at least Daisy has two allies within the family; not a total loss.

The party at midnight in the storm in their mysterious island mansion turns into a disaster when someone starts killing family members one by one. Who is behind these murders, and what is their motive? The author is trying to answer it through this book.If only the Darker family had heeded those words, they might not have found themselves on a private, isolated island, at Halloween with a killer amongst them, and when the tide comes in, they will be isolated from the mainland for 8 hours - plenty of time for things to go badly wrong! Daisy Darker was a pleasure to read. It felt a bit lighter (ha!) than the usual Alice Feeney book, a little less disturbing and a little more like the classic mysteries I grew up reading (and love!) Daisy Darker is a first rate, gripping thriller. Alice Feeney’s gorgeous writing will sweep you up like a runaway train. Hold on for the ride!” Clever, sinister, claustrophobic, beguiling and utterly compelling. I was totally hooked from the first sentence.”