{"id":826,"date":"2026-03-31T14:40:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T03:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kgracereads.com\/?p=826"},"modified":"2026-03-31T14:42:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T03:42:23","slug":"daisy-darker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kgracereads.com\/?p=826","title":{"rendered":"Daisy Darker"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>ISBN-13: 9781529089820<br>ISBN-10: 1529089824<br>Author: Alice Feeney<br>Publisher: Pan Macmillan<br>Release Date: 25 September 2023<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Audiobook..My thoughts<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I really thought I knew who the person behind the murders was.\u00a0 Several times I suspected Daisy but couldn\u2019t quite believe the author would make it that obvious.\u00a0 Gripping and compelling the darker family story reminds me of the book and film the Calamine lawn, the family home Sea Glass sounds beautiful, luxurious and very much a family home , sisters, beautiful garden and cut off from the world by water. \u00a0 This is a story about Daisy and her grandmother. It\u2019s got a few twists and a shocker of an ending I didn\u2019t see coming.\u00a0 There are plenty of clues along the way but I was so engrossed in Daisy&#8217;s story I missed them, as many readers I suspect will also do. \u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Daisy is delightful, a beautiful character you will love, her sister however Lily is hard to like, self centred, vain with a short fuse.\u00a0you\u2019ll feel desperately sorry for Beatrice or Trixie as she likes to be called but she\u2019s not as innocent as she comes across.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rose I really liked her but her personality was hard to decipher and the author does a great job of making her \u00a0likeable but also not at the same time, so it was hard to actually understand Rose. \u00a0 Connor an outside \u2018adopted\u2019 into the family, \u00a0he tries to be fearless and sensible and I still don\u2019t really understand why the author did what she did with him. \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This book is gripping, however it left me with wanting a follow up because it really needs Daisy&#8217;s story too continue.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What is the book about:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After years of avoiding each other, Daisy Darker\u2019s entire family is assembling for Nana\u2019s 80th birthday party in Nana\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With a wicked wink to Agatha Christie\u2019s And Then There Were None, Daisy Darker\u2019s unforgettable twists will leave readers reeling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISBN-13: 9781529089820ISBN-10: 1529089824Author: Alice FeeneyPublisher: Pan MacmillanRelease Date: 25 September 2023 Audiobook..My thoughts I really thought I knew who the person behind the murders was.\u00a0 Several times I suspected Daisy but couldn\u2019t quite believe the author would make it that obvious.\u00a0 Gripping and compelling the darker family story reminds me of the book and film [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":827,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[27,29,15,4,28,14,10,30],"class_list":["post-826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-alice-feeney","tag-audiobook","tag-authors","tag-book","tag-daisy-darker","tag-family","tag-murder","tag-pan-macmillan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kgracereads.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kgracereads.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kgracereads.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kgracereads.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kgracereads.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kgracereads.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":828,"href":"https:\/\/kgracereads.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826\/revisions\/828"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kgracereads.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kgracereads.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kgracereads.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kgracereads.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}