I Can't Wait for... Daisy Darker!

Can't-Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Wishful Endings, to spotlight and discuss the books we're excited about that we have yet to read. Generally they're books that have yet to be released.

I'm a sucker for anything comped to Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None, so I'm excited to see how this book spins it.  

Daisy Darker

Standalone

by Alice Feeney
eBook, Hardcover, Audiobook 352 Pages
August 30, 2022 by Flatiron Books

Blurb:

The New York Times bestselling Queen of Twists returns…with a family reunion that leads to murder.

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. 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.

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…

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.

With a wicked wink to Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None, Daisy Darker’s unforgettable twists will leave readers reeling.

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Why I Want To Read Daisy Darker:

Like I said above, I'm here for all the And Then There Were None reimaginings / comped books. I like that this one is set with a family, instead of a group of strangers. It should make for an interesting twist. 

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Will you be checking this book out? What upcoming releases are you looking forward to?

{Book Review} THE LAST RESORT by Susi Holliday

 

The Last Resort 

Standalone

Susi Holliday

Thriller

299 Pages

Blurb:

Seven strangers. Seven secrets. One perfect crime.

When Amelia is invited to an all-expenses-paid retreat on a private island, the mysterious offer is too good to refuse. Along with six other strangers, she’s told they’re here to test a brand-new product for Timeo Technologies. But the guests’ excitement soon turns to terror when the real reason for their summons becomes clear.

Each guest has a guilty secret. And when they’re all forced to wear a memory-tracking device that reveals their dark and shameful deeds to their fellow guests, there’s no hiding from the past. This is no luxury retreat—it’s a trap they can’t get out of.

As the clock counts down to the lavish end-of-day party they’ve been promised, injuries and in-fighting split the group. But with no escape from the island—or the other guests’ most shocking secrets—Amelia begins to suspect that her only hope for survival is to be the last one standing. Can she confront her own dark past to uncover the truth—before it’s too late to get out?

My Review:

To sum up this book, it's a lot like Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None on a tech-heavy island with an ending that is Luke-warm at best. 

At the beginning of the book there is a little girl playing with another child on an island while visiting her grandparents who does something unthinkable. But who is the girl? How does she fit into the story? And who is the other child? (Who I mistakenly thought was a boy until the end of the book).

Years later 7 strangers who have nothing in common find themselves on a plane for a "luxury experience" none of them would dream of missing. Each has a reason for being there, and each is harboring a deeply buried secret. There's the influencer, the video game designer, the investment broker, the photographer, the gossip columnist, the health guru, and the aid worker. One of these things is not like the other. 

When the strangers get to the island, the discover things to be a lot less than luxurious and when some high-tech devices are planted in their ears that start revealing each of their deepest, darkest secrets it becomes clear that someone has lured them to the island for far more sinister reasons and they'll have to band together if they want to get off the island alive. 

I really enjoyed this book and will always devour anything that gives me And Then There Were None vibes so this book really had me going with the twists and turns until the end. I was all ready for some fantastic reveal and shocking ending and while the reveal was pretty good, how the main character chose to handle the ending was a bit of a letdown. But this book had everything going for it before that: a diverse group of characters with offenses varying from mild to I-did-not-see-that-coming, tension, a sense of who-will-make-it-out-alive, and an unseen madman pulling the strings from behind the scenes. 

My Rating:

🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

4 of 5 Stars!