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

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Longevity of relationships was the name of the game in this tale. How do you think relationship longevity contributes to the success/failure of relationships in real life? There is something to be said for sharing years with a person, even more so if they were formative, childhood years. There is a closeness that time alone can provide. THANK YOU ALICE FEENEY FOR GETTING ME OUT OF MY BOOK SLUMP!!! Ms. Feeney proves, with her lyrical prose and well described characters, that you don’t need overly descriptive gore and violence to deliver a great thriller!!! All are not necessarily pleased by Nana's proclamations, but what can they do. What's done is done, isn't it? 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. Daisy Darker was born with a broken heart. Now after years of avoiding each other, Daisy Darker’s entire family is assembling for Nana’s 80th birthday party in her crumbling gothic house on a tiny tidal island. The family arrives, each of them harboring secrets. When the tide comes in, they will be cut off from the rest of the world for eight hours.

It’s Halloween night, Nana’s 80th birthday, and she summons her children and grandchildren to her house, a crumbling Victorian on a tiny remote Cornish island. Based on a fortune teller's prediction some years ago, it may be her last birthday. The house is cut off from all but boat access during high tide. If you’re not a seagoing kind of person, tides are actually super-interesting, caused by the gravitational pull of the moon. In any case, high tides happen roughly twice in a 24 hour period, about twelve hours apart. Same with low tides. The time between each high and low is roughly six hours. Conor finally speaks to Daisy say saying he’s sorry for what’s happening. A new tape shows up. It says “see me” and is set on Halloween night 1988, a night Daisy wishes she could forget.The summers, however, were spent at her Nana’s gothic mansion, Seaglass, on a small island that was only accessible at low tide. She and Nana had a special and loving relationship. Summers were the highlight of Daisy’s life. 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. At the beginning, when the family goes around the table and tells how they’d murders someone, Daisy says “throw them off a cliff.” And weirdly, everyone else predicts their own manner of death. Clues I missed to the identity of the killer Synopsis: 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.

Since Daisy is born with a heart condition, she repeatedly refers to herself as "broken." This is stated over and over throughout the story, in the most pitiful and woe-is-me way. Since I read the physical copy, I can't do a search for how many times the word "broken" is used, but it wouldn't surprise me if the answer is hundreds of times. At least that's the way it feels. My nana is the only person in my family who loved me unconditionally. So much so, she wrote a book about me, or at least about a little girl with the same name. If mine sounds familiar, that is why. Daisy Darker’s Little Secret is a bestselling children’s book, which my nana wrote and illustrated. It can be found in almost every bookstore around the world, often nestled between The Gruffalo and The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Nana said she chose to borrow my name for the story so that—one way or another—I could live forever. It was a kind thing to do, even if my parents and sisters didn’t think so at the time. I suspect they wanted to live forever too, but they settled for living off the book’s royalties instead. Illness/a fatal condition: I thought it was interesting that the author used a chronic/fatal illness/condition to be the reason why Daisy was an outcast in this family, but I think that even before that was found out, she already was doomed to be the odd one out. She was born into an already flawed and messed up family, and through no fault of her own basically became the pariah because of her illness. She has a really rare heart condition, and I liked how the author used this as a metaphor for a broken heart both physically and symbolically. Even though it was a dark and messed up book, I personally feel like this was still done sensitively. In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony.”The Darker family has assembled at Seaglass for Nana’s 80th birthday. Frank and Nancy have been divorced for years but return for what they are sure will be a reading of Nana’s will. 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 . . .