Daisy Chain

by B. K. Brain

Olivia Dawson can’t seem to catch a break. Her boss is retiring and her immediate supervisor, an awful woman with a personal vendetta against her, looks to be getting his job. Her love life is in shambles, her best friend won’t shut the hell up about Star Trek, and her elderly neighbor won’t stop hitting her car with his pickup.

But that’s just the normal stuff. You see, Olivia is allergic to everything — animals, dust, bees, pollen — the list goes on. And now she’s discovered that each time she sneezes, a chunk of her life energy is released into the nearest flower, salad or shrubbery. To top things off, she’s being stalked by a man desperate to save his dying wife. She soon discovers he’ll do anything to claim her power.

Horrified and scrambling for Zyrtec, she must find a way to get the promotion herself, start dating again, endure her friend’s constant jabbering, and take sweet revenge on her neighbor, all while avoiding being murdered.
Olivia’s allergies are killing her. But then again, they might just be the key to everything.

279 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 23, 2022

Reviews

[Meghan Turner · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved this weird little book so much. All of the characters had great personalities and you were able to really like them, or really really hate them. The story was so unique and interesting, and I was cracking up the entire time. 5/5⭐️

I received a copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.

[LAURA MARTINEZ · Rating 5 out of 5]

Outstandingly weirdly amazing

Like all of B. K. Brains books, there are twists and turns, wrapped in weird fantastically written unbelievable magic. Ideas that can only be derived from a fever dream, dot the pages with letters and punctuation, leading to a page turning adventure that gets your mind going at the thought and possibility. In the literature world where books are often cranked out reading like everything else, B.K. Brains words are a breath of newness and difference, full of ideas that are mirrored by nothing else. If I had one word of advice it would be to buy them all and read every word. You are in for a literary ride into the mind of a genius.

[Melissa Izquierdo · Rating 4 out of 5]

Quirky, interesting premise. The MC is extremely likeable as are the supporting characters. She was snarky and funny. I actually laughed out loud.

I was a bit confused by the ending but all in all a heart warming read.

I received a free ebook. This is my honest review.

[Karla · Rating 4 out of 5]

What an odd fun book!

Thank you to book sirens for letting me read this book! I received an ARC copy for my honest review.

[Cat Fithian · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fun, very quirky, adequate audio.

[Ale · Rating 4 out of 5]

Olivia is allergic to anything. One day, at job, she is picked up to bring daisies to her boss who had a heart attack.
While at the hospital the flowers do that thing to an allergic person, while she is searching for a vending machine to buy some water she enters a room where a man is sleeping, the man holds her arm and gives her something before passing away.
He gives her a strange power that makes everything, starting from green things (trees, flowers, but also lettuce at restaurants) grow whenever she pushes out a bit of energy.

The book was quite the funny journey: Olivia is totally funny and she somehow manages to do illegal things in a funny way.
She also tries to resolve the matter about guilt: she thinks the decision she made when she was young caused her parents death. I really loved that dialogue with Darwin, when she starts saying out loud what she thinks and also the dialogue with her brother.

Thank you so much to BookSirens for letting me read this book, I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.

ITA
Olivia è allergica a qualsiasi cosa. Un giorno, a lavoro, viene scelta per portare delle margherite al suo capo che ha avuto un malore.
All’ospedale, Olivia, sta male per via dei fiori, cerca un distributore per prendere dell’acqua ma finisce per entrare in una stanza dove sta dormendo un uomo. Questo improvvisamente si sveglia, le prende un braccio e le regala qualcosa prima di morire.
Le dona uno strano potere che rende tutto, a partire dalle cose verdi (fiori, alberi ma perché non anche l’insalata ai ristoranti) crescere ogni volta che lei spinge fuori un po’ di energia.

Il libro è molto spassoso: Olivia è divertente e in qualche modo riesce a fare cose illegali, ma in modo divertente.
Prova anche a far fronte a un problema personale: si è convinta che a causa delle scelte che ha fatto quando era una ragazzina i suoi genitori siano morti. Mi è piaciuto molto il discorso con Darwin quando dice ad alta voce cosa pensa e anche quel dialogo con suo fratello.

Ho ricevuto una copia gratuita dalla casa editrice tramite BookSirens. Questa recensione contiene la mia opinione ed è pubblicata liberamente.