by Lisa Graff
A Tangle of Knots was a very quick read for me (as are most juvenile books). It's fun and a very different book compared to most of the middle grade novels out there. The writing is very well done but there was just that something that didn't click for me. Told in several viewpoints everyone in th...
I enjoyed the separate stories that eventually are connected. Some of my kids might struggle with the confusion if they aren't ready for that type of story just yet. Read june, 2014
I have to admit when I started A Tangle of Knots, I was quite confused. Too many characters were tossed at me, their lives all scattered around and I felt I had no one to connect to, I was losing faith. In walked Cady. Although she had been “sent to live with no fewer than six families” and had re...
This story begins with a powder blue suitcase that held within it a young man's hopes and dreams for making a fortune. What he needs besides what is in the suitcase is a special talent that will give him the success he desires. Too soon, his hopes and dreams are dashed when the suitcase turns up mis...
This is a demure, delightful, enchanting book. If it were a color, it'd be mauve.Think rescuing a lighter for noble purposes was the most whimsy task you'd been sent to accomplish? Well, here's another.Try searching fifty years for a suitcase.It was a very old suitcase, but sturdy and well-loved, bo...
Find more of my reviews at www.readingangel.comA Tangle of Knots had a lot of great things going for it. I loved that the fantasy feel of it was still so steeped in reality. It was close to the magical realism that I love so much in Sarah Addison Allen's writing. Each person is just like you or m...
A Tangle of Knots is a really cute middle grade novel. There were lots of things to love about this one, including the wide cast of characters, the whimsical aspects (hot air balloons and a girl who loves baking cakes), and the wonderfully appetizing cake recipes scattered throughout. It's also a re...
In a world where each person has one special Talent, a group of people — including a cranky old man, an orphan girl, a loving family, and a mute woman — are brought together by fate to find the things that they have lost.The Owner didn’t know it then, but in just one short week, all eight rooms woul...
A Tangle of Knots is a middle grade novel with a lot of ambitions. The characters are all interesting, the premise is interesting and the plot is fast paced and filled with action. The problem is that the novel bites off more than it can chew in the relatively few number of pages it calls its own. T...
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