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1.5 ⭐️
Daisy Darker is attending her Nana's 80th birthday at her coastal cottage with her entire, dysfunctional family. The family arrives and enjoys the company of each other as much as they can while waiting for the main event-for Nana to reveal her will. Disappointed with the outcome of the will reading-the family is not getting along and is (somewhat) shocked to find that Nana has died, in a pretty tragic way. As the night goes on, tragedy strikes again and again, and the remaining family members are left revising the secrets of the past to try to make sense of the horror that is happening in the present.

I did not like this at all. I will say the narrator was fantastic. Same with Rock, Paper, Scissors, this way such a let down. I LOVED His & Hers, because it was creepy. There was so much tension in that story that this one lacked-primarily due to the past/present chapters. It just didn't work. Any time I was getting into the present story, it would go back to the past. The past chapters were unbelievably boring and repetitive. We get it, Daisy didn't have friends, she didn't have anything, she didn't go to school. By the end I was so done with this story because it's so unbelievable. I struggled with predicting the ending but then not expecting that other element that was added in, which was hinted throughout. The ending did answer many questions I had while reading the story, but its so unrealistic and I couldn't buy it. I don't feel the mystery or thrill in this, just like with Rock, Paper, Scissors, I was left very dissatisfied by the end. None of the characters were likeable and the author spent more time making these odd and annoying comments about human behaviour than focusing on furthering the story. Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for the free preview in exchange for an honest review.