A review by taylorhathcock
Daisy Darker by Alice Feeney

5.0

"Pity fades with age, hate is lost and found, but guilt can last a lifetime." 

I recently have reentered my thriller era and I kept hearing great things about Alice Feeney. So I had no choice but to read Daisy Darker and boy it did not disappoint. It has like this perfect balance of creepy and ominous but also real world problems. I mean from the moment the book started I began to question everything. I constantly thought I had it figured out but I did not expect the plot twists that Alice Feeney created in this one. Usually I've figured out the whole thriller pretty earlier on, I only got one piece of this one, and even then I thought I was wrong. I mean the writing is phenomenal, the psychological elmements of the family being tormented by the killler were beautiful. I loved that after each kill a VHS tape was left for the family to watch. 
What begins to become clear is Daisy's family has a lot of secrets and none of them really treated her all that well. Yet, she loves her family so she tries and tries to fit in. Her nana is the only person she ever truly connected with, until her niece came along. It is heartbreaking to get the bits of Daisy's childhood. You quickly empathize with her character and want some type of retribution. So this family get together seems like the perfect opportunity for Daisy to try and set things right. We quickly learn that the family has a vast number of secrets that they hide from each other, and the killer has no issue bringing them to light. I really enjoyed this book. It was one that I hated to put down because  something was always happening or on the verge of happening. I have offically been converted to an Alice Feeney fan and can't wait to read more of her work.