Daisy’s Choice

A tomboy at heart, Daisy can fix darn near anything thanks to her dad. After his death, she tries to step into his handyman shoes to help a family whose furnace is not working, but she ends up in the Burn Trauma Unit, blind and with 70% of her body burned.  She wants the treatments to stop, yet they don’t no matter how hard she screams from the intense pain.  Daisy finally gets home, and knows she can starve herself which should send her already compromised kidneys into failure. She may succeed or find love from Arthur who pushes her to discover what she really wants.

Daisy is a breath of fresh air for the heroine of the story.  She is raw, angry, truthful, loyal, and hurtful. The world created around Daisy has some confusion that is hard to follow at first, the story moving back and forth between present and past through a chunk of the book.  Daisy and her mother, Rhoda, have gone through all the pain to come out as stronger women and closer to each other.  Daisy’s irritability causes various conflicts that leads to frustration for the reader.  Arthur is the white knight, yet Daisy saves him as much as he saves her.  A triumphant love that grows from the beauty that is within that shines on the outside for the world to see!

Laura Dinsdale