My Never Ending List

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 returned to live at Miss Mallory’s Home for Lost Children, she had found a place in my heart.  Cady had an amazing Talent and a positive attitude, I knew that Cady was someone unique. Having lived in the house with Miss Mallory for many years, their relationship was special.    It’s your Talent in Poughkeepsie that makes you special, just like your name.  Eventually everyone will get a Talent whether it’s baking, knitting, floating or something else along these lines.  At the Lost Luggage Emporium, The Owner receives luggage from the airport and sells these missing treasures inside his shop.  The Owner is a strange man with lots of connections to the town but you really should keep your distance from him.    As you realize the layers of Poughkeepsie, you discover another mystery that is below the surface.  It had been there the whole time; it just took certain events to get there.   There’s an interesting twist and there were certain parts of the book that left me scratching my head. I kept my paper and pen out, keeping track of the in and outs of this small community as I thought it was rather confusing and jumbled up at times.  I guess perhaps I was not meant to understand this small town of Poughkeepsie and that’s okay with me.  It sure was bustling with activity.