I love the magnolia park series with my whole heart but after reading the first book of Daisy Haites I realized that I’m more of a Magnolia girly. Daisy haites 1 was okay but it didn’t blew me as much as MP so I initially wanted to skip this book. I read ‘the great undoing’ mainly because I needed to read about Julian’s POV from TLWH!! 

As I only read this book to get insights on Julian’s POV while he was with Magnolia, I wasn’t much interested in Daisy’s story so I was a bit bored during her parts. It didn’t help much either that Christian and her story fell so flat and nothing much happened between them in the beginning. BUT after she broke up with Tiller it finally got more interesting! From this part on, I was HOOKED. 

I saw some people saying that this book is just a repetition of “The long way home” which is why I didn’t wanted to read this book and I’m SO glad I didn’t listen to these people because oh god were they wrong! Obviously this book takes place at the same timeline like “the long way home” but you get soo many new insights and many things just make more sense! You also have the story of Daisy and Christian which wasn’t featured in “the long way home”. I love seeing ‘the other side of the story’ because there is always two sides of one story. Now that I got to see Julian’s side, everything just makes more sense and I fell for him harder than I thought possible…

I know some people complain about Julian and think there’s too much of him and Magnolia in this book but we need Julian’s pov to understand what happened in TLWH? And guys, the series is literally called the ‘Magnolia Parks Universe’. 🙄 So yeah she’s gonna be heavily featured throughout ALL books. 

And yes, even if I’m Julian Haites #1 fan, would I still want him to end up with Magnolia? My answer to that before reading ‘the great undoing’ would be yes definitely! Now I’m not so sure anymore and would rather tend to No… not because Julian doesn’t deserve it or is a bad person but rather for Magnolia’s safety 

The ending shattered my heart and I cried! Overall, this book started off a bit slow and boring in the beginning but turned out to be a masterpiece in the end!!

As I already mentioned I read this second Daisy book only for Julian & Magnolia and am not interested enough in Daisy. Now that Magnolia has her ending with BJ in ‘into the dark’ I probably wont be reading the rest of the Daisy books that may come (aside from the fact that I’m a Magnolia girly anyway, it looks like the author don’t even wanna continue Daisy’s story and I don’t wanna wait ages for a book release) 

Here’s a small spoilers section:

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Okay, anyone else found it really weird and unrealistic how they send flowers to Daisy for a really long time (weeks? Months?) but nothing happened and the topic just got forgotten by everyone but then they send ONE SINGLE bucket of Magnolia flowers and they attack Magnolia immediately? 🙄