{"id":2357,"date":"2021-12-23T18:50:58","date_gmt":"2021-12-23T18:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=2357"},"modified":"2023-03-11T19:47:59","modified_gmt":"2023-03-11T19:47:59","slug":"daisy-darker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=2357","title":{"rendered":"Daisy Darker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An homage to Agatha Christie\u2019s <em>And Then There Were None<\/em> that is both wryly humorous and deadly serious. The setting: a Victorian gothic house, named Seaglass, located on a tiny island off the Cornwall coast, accessible only during low tide. The cast: matriarch Nana, her son and ex-daughter-in-law, three adult nieces, a grandniece, and a family friend. The occasion: Nana\u2019s 80th birthday, predicated to be her last. As the sun goes down, the tide rushes in, dinner is served, and then it\u2019s time for Nana to read her will. Our narrator, and very much the center of the book, is Daisy, Nana\u2019s youngest and favorite niece, who was born, in Daisy\u2019s word, \u201cbroken,\u201d with a heart condition she could die from at any moment. Nana\u2014a wonder of a character\u2014is a famous children\u2019s book author, and Seaglass overflows with her designs and eerie, Edward Gorey-esque poems. The novel shifts between the family\u2019s painful past and the nerve-wracking present, and as the night grows longer, and the revelations unfold, the carnage increases. The ending manages to shock, and while some readers may feel cheated by the turn of events, others will enjoy having to rethink the whole book. <strong>This book isn\u2019t twisty, it\u2019s demonic.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An homage to Agatha Christie\u2019s And Then There Were None that is both wryly humorous and deadly serious. The setting: a Victorian gothic house, named Seaglass, located on a tiny&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2356,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[108,52,50,51],"class_list":["post-2357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-gothic","tag-psychological","tag-suspense","tag-thrillers"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Daisy--400x400.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Daisy--400x600.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Brian Kenney","author_link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?author=1"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}