Darker, atmospheric, unnerving twists and turnsThis is my first book from Alice Feeney, and I can already tell I'm going down a rabbit hole. I checked this audiobook out with Libby, and I am seriously debating buying a physical copy of this book because I enjoyed it that much. The narration was done by Stephanie Racine, and she does an amazing job. It sounds silly but she managed to bring all of the tension through so clearly that I could feel myself physically feeling tense and nervous in different scenes.If you read "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie, this book will feel familiar to you. It follows a similar premise with the trapped room, a poetic atmosphere. But it's far more intense, in my opinion.Daisy Darker was born with a broken heart. A broken heart caused by a heart defect and a valve that doesn't function properly. She's born the youngest girl in a family that's already dysfunctional and the family's resentment of Daisy and her health issues isn't well hidden from her.Daisy is exceptionally close with her Nana, and Nana always has the family out to Sea Glass, her home on the Atlantic coast, for her birthday, which happens to fall on Halloween. This year is special, because Nana is turning 80 years old, and she doesn't expect to live long, since a psychic in Land's End told her she wouldn't live past 80. After dinner, with Daisy's mother and father, sisters, Lily and Rose, and niece, Trixie, Nana decides to read her will to the family. The will leaves almost nothing to anyone but Trixie. In fact, everyone else, minus Daisy, is left a back-handed item, meant to help them grow personally with a nice side of insult baked in. And then Connor arrives, a neighbor boy whom the family has known for years.But once midnight hits, Nana is dead, and each hour after, someone else dies.This audiobook clocks in around 11 hours and I listened non-stop and finished this over two days. The twists are absolutely insane. I did guess one of the major twists about 35% in, but I was not even remotely confident in my guess, so I dismissed it.One aspect that I enjoyed about this book the most is that everything feels like a red herring, and nothing feels like a red herring. As the tension builds, you start paying more and more attention, trying to focus on everything because everything seems important and nothing seems important. Then you start replaying past events in the book and you're already seeing it differently as the story progresses. The plotting and layout of this story deserve all of the applause and recognition because it was so excellently done. You find yourself questioning your own judgment of the characters and the scenarios they've gotten into, and then you're thrown for one loop after another.The ending of this book was bananas. B-A-N-A-N-A-S. The twists kept coming but even when I knew it was coming, the actual reveal was beyond what I could have expected. I even listened in the car and my jaw was dropped at a red light because I was totally shocked.I cannot recommend this book enough. I rarely rate a book at 5 stars, but this book absolutely gets it. Fantastic plotting, the tension is through the roof, and the story is wildly addictive.0
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