Daisy is a fifteen year old girl with anorexia who is spending the summer in London with her four cousins, which she didn't know thill then. She has family problems since she absolutely hates her stepmother and her dad, plus she's, I'd say, pretty insecure, shy, and quiet. During the time with her cousins, she learns to be more open to the world and eventually has a really good time with them. Maybe a bit toooo good since she falls in love with her cousin. Also freaking ww3 breaks out, plus their aunt is like never home, and the four kids just chill alone somewhere in England, at the end of the world. The book isn't for me because of many factors: 1. I'm OKAY if she falls in love with her cousin, they're teens with issues, no adults, living their life. BUT I have a problem with incest and underage s€x. A big one. Even bigger when THEY KNOW IT'S WRONG AND GIVE a SH!T. 1.5 Why don't take the neighbors son? WHY THE COUSIN? 2. The ww3 situation is so random. We never get to know the enemy, there's just bomb attacks, terrorists and enemy soldiers everywhere without a real explanation. 3. One guy can literally TALK to animals 4. Daisy and the love of her life, a.k.a, her cousin, can communicate like through their minds? Over a distance, that's like...across half of the country? 5. Her anorexia doesn't seem to bother her? Like she's always "Ah and I didn't eat anything/I didn't really eat that much..." etc. Girl? What? 6. Everything. is. so. random. Can't really recommend.

Real rating would be 2 stars and a half. My feelings about this book are pretty mixed. I liked the idea of the story, i liked that we got no reason for the war, i liked that Daisys writing differed from part 1 to 2 and that her writing in part 1 was unpolished(if you know what i mean)yet there were poetical moments in just the right amount. That Edmond is her cousin...so what? I did not mind it much, though i admit a neighbour boy could have done the trick just as well. However what really annoyed me was how little the writer convinced me of their great love. I know that Daisy told the story and she probably felt that love so strongly that she did not feel the need to convince the reader. Which is okay I guess but Daisy is no real person and when an author makes the love to a boy the main motivation of survival for a character, your readers should be able to relate. That did not work so well, I cared more for Jet the dog and Piper thn for any other character. As for the end (spoiler ahead) ... what the hell ? A traumatization i get but 5 years later he is still mad at her? Yes it is possible and yes i know, books are not written to grant us wishes but come on, it was just a little too huge of an impact given that the lovestory seemed rushed and forced in the first place. Also i did not really like Daisy and could not relate to her. So yes, the book has its moments but it did not catch me.

I bought this, never having heard about it and just reading the back and thinking „Oh, this is something I would’ve read 3 years ago. Let’s read it for nostalgia“ Oh well. She fell in love with her cousin and she was only 15 and they were both minors and there were no adults around to tell them that it was morally wrong because then there was a war happening and it was this dystopian world and because the mc didn’t really have an idea what was going on, neither had the reader. Definitely check TWs, very graphic and mention of lots of heavy topics. It just was so incredibly slow-paced (took me like a week for 200 pages) and I thought the MC wasn’t really likable which was ok because she didn’t have to be. There was way too much happening at once but without really gaining my interest, too plot heavy and I thought it was only getting interest in Part 2 which were the last 20(?) pages. I would’ve never bought this if I knew all this beforehand but it was an interesting experience I guess?