The Thirteenth Tale

The premise of the book sounds interesting. It has nearly everything. A family secret, a ghost, twins, a mystery, a fire. Unfortunately the book becomes clogged with too much. The characters all start to blend. They appear for a handful of pages, then dissappear. When they reappear you're left struggling to remember who is who. At first I tried to separate the characters by what they did, the gardener, the twins. then the characters with those titles kept multiplying. Honestly, a book does not need more than 1 set of twins as main characters In a book. It became so confusing that I kept having to give up or flip back. It was like a sink full of dirty dishes and food scraps on thanksgiving night. There were thing everywhere. Cleaning the dishes should have been the main focus. Instead, in this book, the author decided to ignore the dishes and try to identify all the floating food scraps.