Lisa Colleen Graff

"Destiny leads 11-year-old Cady to a peanut butter factory, a family of children searching for their own Talents, and a Talent Thief who will alter her life forever"--Provided by publisher. Includes cake recipes.

A Tangle of Knots

Amanda Kordeliski

Kim Tyo-Dickerson

I couldn't turn the pages fast enough. The tangle of characters, stories and Talents that continued to flex and tighten all the way to the very satisfying end, as well as the delicious cake recipes, kept the suspense building and I have to say, kept me from heating up dinner for my family.

Lisa Graff

A National Book Award nominee! The magic of Savvy meets the complexity of When You Reach Me in this "blithe magical puzzle," --The Wall Street Journal Told in multiple viewpoints, A Tangle of Knots is a magnificent puzzle. In a slightly magical world where everyone has a Talent, eleven-year-old Cady is an orphan with a phenomenal Talent for cake baking. But little does she know that fate has set her on a journey from the moment she was born. And her destiny leads her to a mysterious address that houses a lost luggage emporium, an old recipe, a family of children searching for their own Talents, and a Talent Thief who will alter her life forever. However, these encounters hold the key to Cady's past and how she became an orphan. If she's lucky, fate may reunite her with her long-lost parent. Lisa Graff adds a pinch of magic to a sharply crafted plot to create a novel that will have readers wondering about fate and the way we're all connected.

Lynn Braden

A Tangle of Knots is the story of a world where some people have "talents," while others don't. There is very little world building in this fantasy, which leaves the reader questioning how and why some people have talents while others don't. With no real protagonist in this story, readers are left trying to follow a large variety of characters with multiple problems and perspectives. Sometimes it is hard to tell who to root for in the story. Several themes are delivered, but there really isn't enough story to truly develop any of them. Even though this story is a mystery, the clues and suspects are difficult to follow. Overall, this was a frustratingly difficult book to understand and enjoy. Not recommended.

A Tangle of Knots

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