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StinaStaffymum My thoughts exactly. All the way through I thought Daisy was one twisted kid. I mean I know kids can be cruel but I just thought she was a little too cocky. I don't think she thought it all out herself. I think the teacher gave her some ideas of what to do. But when I finished the book I thought she is going to have problems with her when she gets older. What happens when she thinks the teacher isn't being fair. "I don't like you anymore. I want another mummy." She's done it once, what's to say she wouldn't do it again. Trade her mummy in for a better one. I certainly didn't feel sorry for Barry, Sharon or Daisy in this story. The only one I felt was the true victim I felt sorry for was Leo. But in all, as a story, it was brilliant!!

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Jenna huh. interesting thought.
yeah, i can see that.
Daisy was one heck of a twisted kid. the whole family was whack-a-doo.
and she seemed older than 9yrs old. seriously, who thinks of framing her mom for her own murder. the tooth, the tights, the glove....
all i can say is that the teacher better be ware in a few years b/c that kid ain't normal.

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Agnes

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Lindsy C. Just finished this book last night and THIS was my first thought! Like Matilda gone all wrong and twisted (not that the og Matilda wasn’t a little twisted itself. lol)

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Bernadett I know answer to an old question, but I just finished and I still have questions myself. I'm honestly on the fence with how manipulative the girl was and when she started to be one, would have loved more snippets from everyday family life instead of the twitter feed. For example she seemed to have no issues with her father until she figured out that he has relations with a bunch of other women? I know the wife believed their relationship to be inappropriate, but I'm on the fence about that too and in the story she wrote clearly she hated her family, but that was also after her illusion of being a kidnapped princess was shattered. For me it seemed like absolutely everyone doted on her except Sharon who had 0 maternal feelings, and it made her feel better than others, even was very cruel herself with Leo. I don't know, I might just be naive or overcomplicating things, but I still don't know how much of the evidence was just lies, delusions or truth. Like the inappropriate videos on the phone of the father were clearly revenge by Jaimie and just a lucky red herring imo. It's clear though that the teacher was also extremely delusional, looking for a new daughter in the place of her dead one, I just can't decide if Daisy noticed this and found a way to use the situation, or the teacher noticed things and she approached her. Like just how much of a mastermind was Daisy and how much input was there from the teacher? And the people who say a 8-9 year old in not able to do things like this are wrong...there were real life cases where young kids got away with worse.
Also the fact that her new name is Sabrina is just eughh. It's a nice name but it just strengthens this princess delusion. I wonder what would happen if someone would burst the bubble of these two.
Poor Leo though, happy he got something better at the end. He did not deserve the treatment he got at all.

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Debbi Herold

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Bea Morningstar⛤ It's true, I think Daisy was an arrogant and malicious girl, from my point of view she has a disorder or psychopathic traits, the teacher too. But Daisy was just a girl who had grown up with her mother's contempt and jealousy towards her and with her father's abuse (the whole book was implied that he abused her), she is just a girl who went through horrible circumstances to her young age thanks to the adults who "had to take care of her." Daisy just wanted to be loved and in the end in a twisted way she got it and she and Leo got a second chance.

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