Daisy thought things couldn’t get worse after her lifelong best friend and recent ex-girlfriend, Hana, killed herself, but then Hana’s ghost appeared claiming she was actually murdered and only Daisy can catch the killer.
Daisy, Plucked
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The sapphic YA Hamlet reimagining you’ve been waiting for
Hana Holm is dead. Everyone in town believes that she committed suicide, including Hana’s lifelong best friend and recent ex-girlfriend, Daisy Polo. But when Hana’s ghost appears and tells Daisy it wasn’t suicide, but murder, Daisy has to figure out the real circumstances of Hana’s death while also dealing with the grief of tlosing someone so important to her. Daisy has to follow the cryptic clues Hana left behind while collecting her own evidence that her first love didn’t kill herself, unraveling a thread she didn’t know was winding through her life.
Between Daisy solving the mystery, follow flashes of Hana’s life as defined by her love for Daisy and her quest to discover all of the circumstances surrounding her father’s murder. Despite the case being closed after the murderer confessed in his suicide note, she starts to discover clues that there was more going on behind the scenes than just a man who finally snapped. She hatches a plot to catch the killer and wrangle out a confession, but she doesn’t know how far her father’s killer will go to keep the truth from coming out.
Q&A
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Not at all! Though Daisy, Plucked is based on Hamlet, it's a reimagining and can be read as a standalone story. Many of the Hamlet references are subtle and even if you don't pick up on them you won't lose out on the story.
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No. This is a YA novel, so there are no spicy scenes, though there are some references to sex and "fade to black" moments.
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Daisy, Plucked contains mentions of suicide, murder, and descriptions of violence. There is also casual drug and alcohol use.