Daisy Darker by Alice Feeney
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Maybe I was too distracted by the beautiful one-liners and amazing prose, but I totally did not see the plot twist coming.
Also, I might not have read it if someone told me the plot twist but I encourage you to try anyway. It’s worth it.
A few I highlighted:
Emotional blows leave invisible bruises that can hurt just as much as the physical variety.
The second time I died was exactly five years after I was born.
My mother used to button up her resentment, but it has grown over the years, and no matter how much she tries to hide it, a little is always left on show. Life has sharpened her tongue, and she is no longer afraid to use it.
Back Cover:
The New York Times bestselling Queen of Twists returns…with a family reunion that leads to murder.
After years of avoiding each other, Daisy Darker’s entire family is assembling for Nana’s 80th birthday party in Nana’s crumbling gothic house on a tiny tidal island. Finally back together one last time, when the tide comes in, they will be cut off from the rest of the world for eight hours.
The family arrives, each of them harboring secrets. Then at the stroke of midnight, as a storm rages, Nana is found dead. And an hour later, the next family member follows…
Trapped on an island where someone is killing them one by one, the Darkers must reckon with their present mystery as well as their past secrets, before the tide comes in and all is revealed.
With a wicked wink to Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None, Daisy Darker’s unforgettable twists will leave readers reeling.
