I am delighted to share my review for Misha Herwin’s latest book Belvedere Crescent. It was published yesterday and I would like to wish a slightly lare “Happy Publication Day to you Misha”, and also thank you for my e-copy of the book which I have honestly reviewed.

Let me show you what Belvedere Crescent is all about…

Abandoned as babies, twins Sadie and Thea have been brought up by their Great-Aunt Jane. When Jane dies, they inherit her house in Belvedere Crescent. The only home they have ever known, it is a place where time slips and slides and what once might have seemed safe is revealed to be full of dark secrets and hidden dangers.

I have only recently started reading this authors books when I read the first two books in her Letty Parker series. Belvedere Crescent is very different from those books and was a really good way of discovering a different writing style.

Belvedere Crescent was a brilliantly atmospheric read as I discovered as I began the book. Twin sisters Sadie and Thea had been brought up by their Great Aunt Jane, not a conventional childhood compared to other children. After Aunt Jane dies the girls are left to deal with the house and its contents and decide what to do with it. The contents of the house go back generations and there is more than meets the eye.

The story is a sad one as the history of the family is gradually told in rather a unique way, it has a chilling side and the house has not been a happy one. Events of the past are merged with the present to tell a tale that is one of grief, sadness and generations of family.

The author has done such a good job of twisting the histories of various family members and gradually unearths the secrets of its past residents. I really enjoyed how the author made the past just as important as the present and still kept the lines clear.

I am aware that this is yet another one of my “vague reviews” and there is so much I want to tell you about and can’t as I would completely ruin the story. The author has successfully injected elements of danger, mystery and suspense into this book and I was absolutely riveted from the first few pages.

If you like a story that has a bit of suspense, family history, secrets, mystery, danger, suspense and then a few other things as well then you really should go and grab a copy of this book. It is a book that successfully dips its toes across a few genres and I thought it was a great read, so much so that it became a “read this in one-sitting book”. I would also definitely recommend it.

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