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Who did you predict the killer to be at the beginning? How did your prediction of the killer morph as the story progressed? I had Conor pegged from the begging! But then, as all of the red herrings continued to pop up, I became more focused on Nana’s agent as a suspect. Clever, sinister, claustrophobic, beguiling and utterly compelling. I was totally hooked from the first sentence.” Sometimes when people try too hard to be more than they are, they end up being less than they were.Ok, I'll give you that they sound good. But what do they mean? I sure don't know. One of my favorite books this year! If I could have devoured it in one sitting I would have! When I finished I decided re-read it to see how the author subtlety set left clues/set things up. ❤️❤️❤️❤️
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A dark claustrophobic thriller takes place at dilapidated gothic house locating on a tidal island. A family gathering to celebrate 80th birthday of grandmother: who was born on Halloween! And yet, it explored some of the same themes she likes: troubled, slightly twisted relationships, dark secrets, people trying to out-maneuver each other. 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.
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 From the #1 bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere, comes one of the most highly anticipated books of the year – the inspiring new novel about a mother’s unbreakable love in a world consumed by fear.
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Fans of Agatha Christie’s classic And Then There Were None will savor this, but Feeney makes it so much more than a witty homage.” 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. Lily thinks that perhaps Frank killed his mother and then took his own life. Daisy asked why he would move Nana‘s body.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. The story is narrated by granddaughter, Daisy Darker, Nana’s favorite, a baby born with a heart condition which caused her to die eight times before the age of thirteen.-something she said she would be concerned about-if she were a cat. 😼 Nana was full of good advice: Don’t waste your life wishing to be like someone else; decide who you are and be you; curiosity doesn’t always kill the cat; we all get broken sometimes, and if you can help fix someone, you should always try.” What is your one piece of advice for your family? A dysfunctional family meets Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None with a truly gasp-inducing twist. This is the book you've been looking for.” — Catherine Ryan Howard, bestselling author of 56 Days
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Perhaps she is obsessed with time because a Palm Reader at Land’s End, predicted that she wouldn’t live past 80, and her Halloween birthday is fast approaching. If only the Darker family had heeded those words, they might not have found themselves on a private, isolated island, at Halloween with a killer amongst them, and when the tide comes in, they will be isolated from the mainland for 8 hours - plenty of time for things to go badly wrong! In my opinion, the best part of this book will be the one-liners (which we never usually expect in thrillers) told by the characters in multiple parts of this book. I think there are more than fifty one-liners in this book. I found each one informative, and these pearls of wisdom are placed in correct intervals and correct areas in the most effective way by the author. I will share a few of them here. Quotes and thoughts to ponder? You'll get a PLETHORA. This is somewhat of a Feeney trademark for me, and I can't think of another author in the genre who gets me to think and reflect as much as she does while I'm ostensibly reading a thriller book. She is so thoughtful, so observant, and just BRILLIANT. Her words have such a magnetic quality: every analogy is spot-on and is nothing short of hypnotizing. Brutally honest at times, but it's those kind of stark observations and willingness to look at the good, bad, and ugly of human nature that takes her books up yet ANOTHER notch.Something I think a lot of authors forget — specifically in the thriller genre — is that just because a character is “unlikeable,” it doesn’t automatically mean they’re interesting. Case in point: most of the characters in Daisy Darker, Alice Feeney’s latest, are horrible, awful people, yes, but even worse? They’re boring.
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Along the line of secrets, do all families have secrets? What secrets have impacted your family? My family must be very boring, because I can’t think of any secrets that affected us. Decades ago, there was the slight question as to whether my great uncle actually married his partner, or just lived with her in harmony to the end of their days…and this was as salacious as my family line ever got. Talk about Seaglass. It was not only the name of the home, it was a tangible asset of the setting. What was the significance of sea glass? In recent years, I have so enjoyed looking for sea glass at Jersey Shore. I love the symbolism that for it to be truly refined and beautiful, it takes so much tumbling and so much time. The Darker family are a miserable, selfish bunch, who only care about themselves and how much money they have.
But as midnight arrives one member is found dead. And she won’t be the last! Can the remaining family members expose the killer among them before it’s their turn to die?! Of course, Alice Feeney has her own very distinctive style-using lots of clever metaphors such as “Secrets are like unpaid debts; they pile up and too much interest is best avoided.” to weave her suspenseful tales. May just be her crowning achievement…In a modern take on And Then There Were None, Alice Feeney presents twist after twist after twist.”
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