My Darling Girl

4.1 4.1 out of 5 stars | 1,018 ratings

Price: 17.05

Last update: 08-07-2024


Top reviews from the United States

Rebar
5.0 out of 5 stars Great book
Reviewed in the United States on July 2, 2024
Very good storyline, it was believable with realistic characters.
Reading it was a thrill and I’m looking forward to reading more by this author.
Tracy
4.0 out of 5 stars spooky as hell!
Reviewed in the United States on January 12, 2024
Fun and fast read, quite creepy. I liked the twist at the end too, did not see that coming. Glad I kicked off 2024 with this one.
Shai
3.0 out of 5 stars Interesting
Reviewed in the United States on January 28, 2024
Definitely an interesting read, also didn’t see the ending coming. But at the same time, it didn’t make my pulse race or anything like that. It was missing that creepy fear factor, but a good book none the less.
Leslie Bialler
5.0 out of 5 stars "'Have you been taking your medicine?' he asked."
Reviewed in the United States on October 24, 2023
Jennifer McMahon’s anti-Christmas present “My Darling Girl” has two absolutely amazing scenes. One is when our increasingly unreliable narrator, Alison O’Connor, calls someone from the past for information she wants. The entire convo is by phone (Alison, as are most McMahon characters, is in Vermont. He’s in a car in California) and the details of the conversation, as Alison describes them, are intermixed with traffic sounds.

And then there’s the Christmas party scene, in which Alison gets more information while holiday cheer and conversation swirls around her. It’s amazing. I stepped back from trying to figure out the kinky plot to think, “how does she DO this?” (The answer is she’s been doing this for 12 books now, and she hasn’t slacked off at all.)

The story begins with her taking in her dying mother, an abusive drunk who has (maybe) scarred her back. Anyhow, since her back is scarred, we can at least assume someone has done something to her. Her husband and two daughters, six and 16, are enchanted with their grandmother, while Alison, amidst strange and stranger happenings that only she seems to see--hordes of flies, cackling birds--becomes increasingly unraveled.

McMahon dashes you around corners, too. Sometimes things that you think at first are part of the author’s fantasies are seen by all. Or at least Alison tells you so. The whole book cascades on to a conclusion that’s dazzling and unsettling.

Notes and asides: supernatural stuff, a dog unharmed, lesbian couples, a knife, carving.
MamaBecky
4.0 out of 5 stars Wow, disturbing yet hooked
Reviewed in the United States on May 16, 2024
This was a crazy story, I got goosebumps so many times while reading this. It had me on the tips of my toes and always wondering..
Sandra Fielder
5.0 out of 5 stars Just a Rock
Reviewed in the United States on June 16, 2024
Alison’s mother Mavis had been abusive to her and her brother Ben when they were kids. Their dad committed suicide when they were young children. Mavis raised the children by herself. Alison liked to remember the times her mom had been kind. Ben only remembered the awful times.
Mavis wanted to stay with family when she found out she was dying of cancer. Alison agreed to take her in. She and her husband Mark agreed that their daughters Izzy and Olivia should get to know their grandmother if only for a short while. Mavis qualified for Hospice.
When Mavis was a young girl, Bobbi, her best friend, swam to the bottom of a deep well of water in Mexico. She had found a heart shaped rock. When Bobbi died, Mavis got the rock. The rock sat by her deathbed. She was obsessed with the rock. She never wanted it out of her sight.
Paul, Mavis assistant for many years, told Alison, “That is not Mavis!” He died that night in a car wreck.
As the story got more scary and odd, I had a really hard time putting my Kindle down!
Heidi Tieman
4.0 out of 5 stars great book
Reviewed in the United States on March 18, 2024
I really enjoyed the suspense and build up on this one. Well written and great twist! I will definitely be reading more by this author.
Girl Charlie
3.0 out of 5 stars I love this author but this was not my favorite.
Reviewed in the United States on January 1, 2024
I really want to be clear that I adore this author, and I will read everything she writes. But this was definitely not one of my favorites. Don’t get me wrong. It was good but it wasn’t great. I felt like there were just a lot of holes that are normally filled in by this particular author, in terms of, why or how things come to be what they are. I thought it was a little bit lacking in that respect. I reread most of her books, this one I might not.

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