A review by blessedjess
The Birdcage by Eve Chase

4.0

If you’re looking for a mysterious time slip novel that is thick with sibling rivalry and family dysfunction set in a gothic-like seaside house then this is the book for you. Three sisters all with different mothers bonded together by an eccentric artist father and an incident that has haunted them for 20 years. Two of the sisters are tight but one has always struggled being on the outside of their twosome. When they all come back to the seaside ancestral home for a reunion, they start to see signs that someone else knows about what really happened one fateful ecliptic night. The author does a great job of keeping a haunting atmosphere throughout the book. With unreliable characters giving three different points of view, the reader is constantly trying to see what the truth is and what are just lies that have become time passed truths. While there are times that I found the back and forth between the characters and times difficult to follow, the mystery kept my reading. A bit of a slow start, the twists and turns are worth the effort to continue reading this mystery. Thanks to NetGalley and The Penguin Group for an advanced ecopy for an honest review.