Daisy Darker

I loved this

Paul :3 am 05.02.2025
Bewertungsnummer: 2404764
Bewertet: Buch (Taschenbuch)

This was such a fantastic book, I read it about a year ago and I still look back and think about it from time to time I read it in a relatively short period of time because it’s thrilling and all that The whole story intrigued me and I only picked it up because I saw the cover and it looked cool, then I read the back This is an amazing family problems centered thriller And one bit made me cry because it reminded me of my own childhood

Deadly Secrets

Sabrina aus Wien am 18.07.2022
Bewertungsnummer: 1749859
Bewertet: Buch (Gebundene Ausgabe)

This murder mystery is about nine people who all have skeletons in their closets – some figuratively, some literally - and desperately try not to become one themselves. For her 80th birthday, the Darker family reunites in Seaglass, Nana’s crumbling old house on a tiny tidal island. Every family member harbors secrets they’d rather not think about, let alone share with anyone else. But when the clock strikes midnight and they start dropping like flies, with no way off the island or means to call for help, they are forced to relive everything they wanted to forget. Since I was blown away by Alice Feeney’s „His & Hers“, I simply coudn’t not read this book. I have to be honest, though, this one was way harder for me to get into. It took me a month to finish – which is quite a long time for me – but in the end it was worth it. „Daisy Darker“ reads like a classic murder mystery and thus isn’t as fast-paced as I would have liked it to be. The frequent flashbacks to Daisy’s childhood and youth further interrupt the flow of the story and made it hard for me to stay invested. On top of that, the characters are just awful human beings. They are annoying, entitled and manipulative, which makes it hard to feel sympathetic towards them. I never thought I would say this, but everything I hated about this book, everything I struggled with, is ultimately why it ended up being so amazing. The author, once again, came up with an outstanding twist to the story that not only tied up every loose end perfectly, but also came as such a surprise that I am still not quite over it. If you are a fan of crime novels and haven’t done so already, I strongly suggest you give one of Alice Feeney’s books a go. This particular book, I’d especially recommend to every fan of muder mysteries á la „And then there were none“ by Agatha Christie.