Inkdeath (Inkheart Trilogy) by Cornelia Funke Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Inkdeath (Inkheart Trilogy)
Book Review: The Satisfying End to the Trilogy
Summary: 5 Stars
The greatly anticipated end of the Inkheart trilogy is here! As a fan, I quickly rushed to the bookstore and bought a copy. Inkdeath by Cornelia Funke is the best book in the series. Every chapter is filled with suspense and excitement until the end. The translator, Anthea Bell, does her job well, making Cornelia Funke's language vivid and imaginative in English (the original was in German).
For readers not familiar with this series, it begins with Inkheart; the second book is Inkspell. Inkdeath is the third and final installment. Luckily, for readers who are new to the series, Inkdeath comes with a synopsis of the first two books.
The main characters, Mo and his daughter Meggie, have the ability to "read" themselves into books. In Inkdeath, we find them in Inkworld, a fantasy world where certain storybook characters live. One of the main conflicts, in a complicated plot, involves an immortal, evil ruler named Adderhead, who desperately wants to prevent his flesh from rotting. Only Mo, who is a bookbinder, can make the book Adderhead needs and read him out of this problem. But Mo refuses to help; he is only interested in getting back home safely with Meggie.
This series is just right for fantasy and adventure book lovers. The story is well-crafted, and any good reader will at least appreciate Funke's imagination. The only thing a potential reader might not like is the length, but it is really worth the time. For non-readers, there's always the Inkheart movie!
-- Reviewed by Veronica L. Hernandez
Book Review: The all-time best children's author of our time.
Summary: 5 Stars
I love Cornelia Funke and anything she writes. I recently discovered a book that told of a young lady that put the original german text of one of her beloved tales onto the hands of the Hary Potter Series publisher. I am so grateful for that! This book was an AMAZING conclusion to the series! Full of new characters and the ones I have come to care about, too. I am DYING to see how they roll this new Favorite Fairytale out in Hollywood. Just 22 days from the moment I am writing this until the movie version of the first book, Inkheart!Book Review: The book is fantastic. A page turner. I read the 663 pages in three days and a half, and Book three is the perfect ending
Summary: 5 Stars
This is the last installment of the Inkheart series.
In the first one, Inkheart, Meggie's father Mo has been hiding from town to town for nine years. So much that their van is more of a house than their present abode.
One night, a strange character by the name of Dustfinger comes to their house to warn Mo about Capricorn. They all escape to a castle owned by Meggie's aunt, Elinor, a spinster that has spent all her life collecting books. Here they are captured by Capricorn's men, as Dustfinger gives them way. The bad men steal a strange book from Mo.
Unbeknown to Meggie, Mo has an interesting talent: when he reads aloud, things, and sometimes people, come out of their stories and into the real world! (Silvertongue) Unfortunately things from the outside world may also go back inside the stories.
Even though Mo works at restoring books and owns a large amount of then, he stopped reading aloud nine years ago when Meggie's mother disappeared as he created Capricorn and Dustfinger. They were characters in a book titled Inkheart, the book that was stolen that night.
The evil Capricorn wants to use Mo's talents to bring himself great wealth and power. He destroys the last known copy of the book, so Mo searches the author of the book, Fenoglio, who is also captured by Capricorn's men
After escaping from Capricorn's village, they all go separate ways and Meggie discovers that Mo isn't the only one who can read things to life. So can she.<
This is an enchanting story full of adventure, suspense, and magic. The characters are vivid and delightful. Unlike many books for younger readers there is a distinct emphasis on the importance of family as seen in the close relationship between Meggie and her father. Lightly magical, humorous, and fun, Inkheart will appeal to those who like adventure and fantasy, and to anyone who ever wished a story could come to life.
Inkspell - second installment
It is one year after the first book (Inkheart). Capricorn is dead, and Meggie, and her father, Mortimer (Mo), have settled at aunt Elinor's castle, after rescuing Meggie's mother, Resa, Dustfinger - the fire talker, was sent back to the Inkheart book (at the end of book one) and Farid (who was read out of a book by Mo) was very attached to him. Farid convinces Meggie to read them back to the book, since Meggie wants to see the world inside the infamous book and Farid wants to save Dustfinger, who is supposed to die in the original story. She is successful.
Meanwhile, Orpheus, another Silvertongue is brought to Elinor's castle with two evil characters from the frirst book, Basta one of Capricorn's men, and Mortola, Capricorn's mother. Orpheus reads Resa, Mo, Basta and Mortola back into Inkheart.
The action happens in the book of Inkheart, where its author, Fenoglio, was left in the first part of the series.
It is now Meggie's task to read Fenoglios changes to the original "Inkheart" to prevent Dustfinger's death and at the same time save her family from the new misfortunes created by this editing.
Inkdeath
Starts where Inkspell left off. Dustfinger is death--he died saving Farid, his apprentice. Orpheus reads Mo and Resa back into Inkheart. Mo had tricked the evil Adderhead by binding a book for his immortality to save himself and his family. The book is deteriorating and the Adderhead is slowly rotting. He wishes revenge from the Songbird. Help by Orpheus, he tries to capture the Bluejay. Mo, has made a deal with death (The white Women) to kill the Adderhead before winter ends or he and his daughter Meggie will be taken. Mo has to write the three words in the book pf eternal life to kill the Adderhead.
Violante, who has fallen in love with the Bluejay conjures a plan to kill her father. But there is a duel between Orpheus and Fenoglio to control the words that shape the history.
There is a hope that all will end well, if only the words could be found to write a happy ending.
Nothing is more true about these series where "the spoken word is nothing, it hardly lives longer than an insect! Only the written word is eternal!"...Books, "They may last longer, yes, but they breathe only when someone opens the book. They are sound pressed between the pages and only a voice can bring them to life...and the paper makes them immortal."
As you can see from these quotes, the realm of reality is quite complicated in this second installment of the series.
You have people that can read characters out or into books (Mo, Meggie, and Orpheus). Then you have people who can read themselves into fiction books (Meggie). Then you have the author of the fictional book who is now inside the book he wrote and trying to edit different endings from the original book. Death may happen in our world or in the fictional world. The only think that is true is:
"All I need is a sheet of paper and something to write with, and then I can turn the world upside down." Nietzsche
The book is fantastic. A page turner. I read the 663 pages in three days and a half, and Book three is the perfect ending to the Inkheart Trilogy.
Book Review: Very disappointing
Summary: 2 Stars
The first two books in this series were excellent. This one reads like a sequel written by a different author. The characters spend their time whining, and worst of all, the romance between Meggie and Farid that has been set up for the first two books comes to nothing. This was bad writing and extremely disappointing.
Read Inkheart and Inkspell. Avoid this book.
Book Review: Very good book
Summary: 5 Stars
Bought as a gift for my 11 year old daughter. She loved it and read it within a 1-1/2 weeks.