kendyl ʚ♡⃛ɞ's Reviews > Daisy Haites

∞/5 ★’s

⁀➷ ❝i didn’t know i loved him in the sort of way where, when you lose them, you lose you too.❞

⁀➷ i’m shaking my head as i stare over at her, feeling sick that i love her how i love her and that i’ve hurt her how i’ve hurt her.

°❀⋆.ೃ࿔*:･･:*.ೃ࿔⋆❀°

𝓼𝓹𝓸𝓲𝓵𝓮𝓻 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝓮 𝓻𝓮𝓿𝓲𝓮𝔀

❥ 𝒶𝓁𝑒𝓍𝒶 𝓅𝓁𝒶𝓎:
❝constellations❞ by jade lemac (piano version)

⤷ your freckles lead the way, i trace your constellations

SCREAMING, CRYING, THROWING UP…
⤷ ❝i know your freckles too.❞
i died dead. let me just tell you all that they studied each other so hard that they knew where each other’s freckles were…BLIND. so cute it makes me sick.

this book. this couple. my roman empire. i promise you that infinity stars is not enough. there are not enough stars in every single universe combined. i thought magnolia parks was heartbreaking…don’t get me wrong, it was, BUT this book was on a whole other level.

⤷ it’s been a week since i’ve finished this and every day that passes by…i fall more and more in love with this story just by the simple thought of it.

inject this book into my veins. taking over my mind, heart, and soul it not enough. i need this book swimming through my bloodstream.

❥ 𝓂𝓎 𝓉𝒽𝑜𝓊𝑔𝒽𝓉𝓈:
it feels like my mind is so empty because my emotions have completely taken over. this book consumed me. i thought magnolia parks was a nightmare…THIS!? a night terror. imagine i’m bella swan in new moon, just a big hole in my chest. i hope most of y’all have seen that movie and understand otherwise this will be awkward😭✋🏼ANYWAYS, this killed me. ended me. i did not finish the book. the book finished me. i feel this book made me see the first book in a different light. that’s not a bad thing at all. i loved magnolia parks, but i’m IN love with daisy haites. not even 100 pages in and i KNEW this would be a five star read for me. i felt it in my bones.

❥ 𝓅𝓁𝑜𝓉:
definitely unexpected. idk what i thought was going to happen, but it definitely wasn’t all that. i know we got a few crumbs in magnolia parks, but i was not paying attention to any of that for obvious reasons. i feel that this plot was more interesting. it had me hooked and on the edge of my seat at times. i don’t want to say a lot since this is a spoiler free review, but what i will say is that there’s crime, danger, dark pasts, trauma, etc…significantly different from the first book.

❥ 𝓌𝓇𝒾𝓉𝒾𝓃𝑔:
the footnotes. let’s talk about them. at first, i was not vibing with them at all…i thought they were pointless and i didn’t like going back and forth. guys, they grew on me. i ended up not minding them at all. some even had me kicking my feet, giggling, screaming, etc. i feel like this is definitely an unpopular opinion, but i think they were fun to read. i love that it made me feel like i was even more inside of the daisy’s mind and i also loved that there were only footnotes during her pov. the writing overall was just chefs kiss. jessa knows how to make you feel deeply connected to her characters and their story…that’s why this book was 100000000x more heartbreaking.

°❀⋆.ೃ࿔*:･･:*.ೃ࿔⋆❀°

❥ 𝒸𝒽𝓇𝒾𝓈𝓉𝒾𝒶𝓃 𝒽𝑒𝓂𝓂𝑒𝓈

⁀➷ i know what she is to me. in short, everything. in long, still everything.

christian is so babygirl🫦he made me forget how to breathe. made my heart forget how to beat. i love this man with my entire being. the little things this man did for daisy😭✋🏼makes me wanna jump off a cliff thinking about how cute it all was. he taught her how to drive and i swear i can still feel the butterflies in my stomach from that moment. he slow danced with this girl in a laundromat. took her on a date to live her dream. he’s so thoughtful and the way he loves…i’m desperate to know what it feels like to be loved by christian hemmes. it’s not only how he loves daisy that gets me, but it’s how he just loves people in general. i swoon🦋

❥ 𝒹𝒶𝒾𝓈𝓎 𝒽𝒶𝒾𝓉𝑒𝓈

⁀➷ i loved him in a way i didn’t know i knew how to love someone. loving him has made me sure i’ll never love anyone the same way again.

daisy>magnolia. i still love magnolia, but i am definitely a daisy girly🥹i love her. my heart broke for her. it’s the fact that she doesn’t get to live a certain life that she so badly wants to live and on top of that…her love life is a mess. learning about her past still has my heart aching. she’s so strong and brave. she’s also real and relatable. the times where she would break down and cry while she was alone because she didn’t want to be vulnerable and let people see her that way…literally me. the way daisy loves!?!? she treasures christian the way he deserves to be treasured🥹✋🏼

❥ 𝒹𝒶𝒾𝓈𝓎𝒸𝒽𝓇𝒾𝓈𝓉𝒾𝒶𝓃

⁀➷ love wins. i like it when love wins.

it’s their world and i want to live in it so bad. i love them so much it hurts. their love is like a warm hug, comforting. i haven’t rooted for a couple so hard since the addicted/calloway sister series. please pray for me because rooting for a couple comes with a lot of pain🥲

°❀⋆.ೃ࿔*:･･:*.ೃ࿔⋆❀°

❝you can be done, baby.❞

a little five word sentence that has so much impact. you might as well tattoo this quote directly on my brain because it’s never going to leave my mind.

°❀⋆.ೃ࿔*:･･:*.ೃ࿔⋆❀°

there’s a lot more that i’d like to say, but i definitely want the main focus point of my review to be daisy and christian. with that being said, here are just a few thoughts that i’m dying to share.

➸ julian haites:
mr ‘i don’t date’…sir, please call me so i can fix that🫦i love this man, idc what anyone says😭i loved his povs and his relationship with daisy. they are so precious🥹

➸ romeo:
i don’t even remember his last name, that’s how irrelevant he is to me. literally one of the most annoying characters ever.

➸ taura:
what she said to daisy about henry lives in my mind rent free.

⤷ ❝i’m obsessed with him. i think he’s…every constellation in the sky.❞

bye. i love taura and i hope her and daisy become besties🥹

➸ the ending:
jessa…straight to PRISON. you have a lot of work to do to make me forgive you.

°❀⋆.ೃ࿔*:･･:*.ೃ࿔⋆❀°

❥ 𝒻𝒶𝓋𝑜𝓇𝒾𝓉𝑒 𝓈𝒸𝑒𝓃𝑒𝓈

if these two scenes don’t have you running to read this book…then i simply don’t know what will.

⤷ scene one

”come around on this side.”
he opened his door, grabbed my wrist and yanked me down onto his lap.
”i’m going to do the pedals, okay?”
”okay.”
”you just do the wheel. focus on the road. get a feel for it.”
i loved it. driving. instantly i loved it. i felt in control for the first time in my life.
it felt like breathing.
my eyes danced across the road in front of me, checking for dangers that couldn’t possibly exist in a world where christian hemmes was teaching me to drive a car alone in the middle-of-nowhere-england.
”you’re hugging the right a bit.”
he waited about ten seconds, letting me hug my right, then he eventually slipped both arms around me, sliding his hands onto the steering wheel and over the top of mine.
”loosen these up.”
he tapped my hands.
i did.
and then he kept them there, his on mine. keeping me left. or, maybe, a little bit, just keeping me.
~~~this is the moment i knew this book would be five stars.

⤷ scene two

”there is a fatal flaw to your normal plan, you know."
”and what's that?"
”you have that face and that brain and you'll never be normal—couldn’t be even if you tried.”
he takes my hand in his and puts the other on my waist, pulls me into him, kisses my forehead, and i don't know what good fortune my fates found to weave into my life right now, but i find myself slow-dancing with christian hemmes.
the universe, actually, is ablaze. the planets lose track of their orbits, the birds are poets now and all the songs written before this and all the ones that'll come after this are about this moment; about how, when we're standing, my ear rests right where his heart is, how one hand of his swallows a whole half of my waist. the beautiful nothingness of this, the most intimate moment of my life to date, a life that, actually, has been dotted with much intimacy and i think nothing will ever beat him resting his chin on top of my head.
and then he stares down at me for a couple of seconds. i think i understand for a fleeting moment why everything that’s bad and painful and sad is worth it if you love someone, because i’ll remember how he’s looking at me now forever.
~~~this moment right here is what i swear heaven looks like.

❥ 𝒻𝒶𝓋𝑜𝓇𝒾𝓉𝑒 𝓆𝓊𝑜𝓉𝑒𝓈:
➛ ❝i won’t let anything happen to you, dais.❞
➛ i cut him off. ❝i know what she likes.❞ PLSSS🫦
➛ ❝you never touch her. never. try it again, and i’ll kill you myself.❞
➛ ❝i’m properly in love with her, jo.❞
➛ i just remember seeing her and thinking she was like, stupid beautiful. how daisy looked that night lives in my brain, rent free, 365 days a year. ordering coffee: daisy's face. filling up my car: daisy's face. buying milk: daisy's face.
➛ and then someone grabs me by the arm and swings me around to face them. someone. like i don’t know who. cute little hands. i recognize her touch.
➛ i know me and her have a weird relationship; she’s somewhere between my sister, my kid, and my best friend. she might be all of the above, but of all the things she is to me, she is absolutely and irrevocably my way home. the way i can tell right from wrong, good from bad.
➛ if my heartbreak was a fever, my brother would be the cool cloth they’d lay on my forehead.
➛ there’s that whole feminine trope of a girl who needed to be saved, doe eyes fluttering, damsel in distress, all innocent and virtuous and that’s not what it is. she’s not like that, she doesn’t need my help, she doesn’t need me to save her—but i’m going to try to anyway.
➛ christian would have one hand around my waist, and the other around my neck. THE HAND PLACEMENT🦋

❥01/23/24
𝓅𝓇𝑒 𝓇𝑒𝓋𝒾𝑒𝓌:

someone please wake me up from this fucking nightmare and then kill me.

rtc…don’t be dumb like me and read this while on your period.

❥ 01/05/24
i will be binging this entire series because if i don’t…i will not know peace, but i fear when i finish it…i will still not know peace🤸🏻‍♀️🕳️