Cover Love: YES! I love this cover, it is darling. It makes me think of summer camps and lakes and fireflies and fun. Wonderful cover!
Why I Wanted to Read This:
I was lucky enough to receive a copy of this in the mail and after I read A Tangle of Knots I knew I had to read this one. While it's not quite a sequel, it should definitely be read after A Tangle of Knots. Here is the synopsis from GoodReads:
In this companion to A Tangle of Knots, it's summertime and everyone is heading off to camp. For Talented kids, the place to be is Camp Atropos, where they can sing songs by the campfire, practice for the Talent show, and take some nice long dips in the lake. But what the kids don't know is that they've been gathered for a reason--one that the camp's director wants to keep hidden at all costs.
Meanwhile, a Talent jar that has been dropped to the bottom of the lake has sprung a leak, and strange things have begun to happen. Dozens of seemingly empty jars have been washing up on the shoreline, Talents have been swapped, and memories have been ripped from one camper's head and placed into another. And no one knows why.
Romance?: Nope.
My Thoughts:
While I enjoyed this read, I didn't like it as much as A Tangle of Knots. Part of the reason is that in Knots, the Talents that people had were kind of normal things. Things that a lot of people might be good at, just enhanced for different people. I enjoyed that idea a lot. It's not like people were superheroes, they were just enhanced. The Talents that some of these kids had in Jars were more...powerful. Not all of them, some of them were normal, but they just seemed more impressive. I didn't really like that change.
This was also a darker book. The campers were in real danger in this book and a lot of the campers were desperate about their Talents or lack of Talents. The camp director was one of the most desperate and the desperation leads her to doing some pretty awful things. I didn't feel like anyone was in true danger, and I hoped everything would be tied up nicely, but I was antsy while reading a lot of this book.
However, I liked the setting a lot. I always wanted to go to a summer camp like this one, on a lake. I always went to sports camp that were hot and dusty, not on a lake. I liked most of the kids in this book and how they worked together to figure out what was going on and how to fix it. And I did like being back in the same world as A Tangle of Knots. It's really fun and there is a lot of possibilities. Also, I love how easily the author writes other points of view. She can slip in and out of characters so smoothly the story just flows!
To Sum Up: Love this world and these are two awesome middle grade books. I will be book talking them a lot in the fall and recommending them for a lot of my 6th grade readers!
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