Inkheart (Inkheart Trilogy) by Cornelia Funke Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Inkheart (Inkheart Trilogy)
Book Review: Dreary
Summary: 1 Stars
Terribly, terribly dreary. One of the few books I've read where I was grateful when I came to the end. Although the premise -- that of being able to call characters forth from a book -- is interesting, the execution was drab. Trying to describe it now is like trying to remember a bad dream months later -- it wasn't nice, and you don't want to revisit it, but that general sense of something unpleasant is the only detail you really remember. Which means this wasn't even spectacular in its horridness... just... blah. There were no characters I hated, only one I sort of liked (the fictitious author), and only two I really felt for (Dustfinger and the mute woman). The ending is neither resounding nor triumphant, and only happy if your view is so narrowly focused that you're only concerned about the main protagonist and Inkheart himself... which renders secondary characters pointless to introduce. (Maybe that's why everyone is so blah?) Not even Inkheart was colorful enough to leave an impression.
There are far better reads out there. I can only guess that those who rave about this book, have yet to encounter those others. How sad. Go read something else!
Book Review: ENCHANTING ... UNIQUE!
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a very original book. I was surprised when Meggie's father brings book characters to life so easily. What an unuusal talent. This is an intriguing book, especially to the millions of book-lovers everywhere.
But the sad part happens when his "talent" gets twisted and he loses "something" very valuable to him and Meggie inside a book. And things really heat up when the "bad" characters get out and try to use Meggie to get to her father.
This is an exciting adventure you won't want to miss!
Book Review: Excellent Book
Summary: 5 Stars
Inkheart is one of the best books I've read. Ever!!!! I suggest this book to everybody that likes fantasy books and magic. Some other books by Cornelia Funke are Inkspell and Inkdeath. Inkheart is also being made into a movie so if you liked the book you will like the movie too.Book Review: Fantastic
Summary: 5 Stars
Inkheart by Cornelia Funke (Hardcover)
Ok so I have to admit this book started off slow. Its boring for about the first half. But I stuck it out and read until the end and was so glad I did. This book is so magical you can imagine everything Cornelia Funke wrote down. This book made me think so much it was truly amazing. I love all of Cornelia Funke's books and I'm currently working on Inkspell the second book in the trilogy. If you like fairy tales and magic then this is the book for you!
Book Review: Foolish with a lack of ceativity
Summary: 1 Stars
I tried to give this book a fair chance, but even that was difficult. There are many problems plauging this book including lack of creativity, one sided characters, as well as horrid descriptions of places and people.
Well before i begin with the problems of the book i believe i will speak of it's positive qualities. The only thing that i can think of that is not negative is the mood of the book. She definetly crafted an interesting sort of setting, crumbling villages scattered accross the empty country side, crooks and creeps living in secret towns, and evil men having more power than the police. This all definetly creates an interesting mood, and is the only reason i was tempted to continue reading, but this is where the positive qualities of the book end.
First off, the characters are down right horrid. They are one-sided and lack any sort of depth or intriguing qualities. Capricorn is supposedly the most evil man ever, but you simply dont get that impression from her descriptions of him. The characters seem to have no motive at all and seem to all be archetypes. The only interesting character would have to be DustFinger, a mysterious fire eater/illusionist trapped out of his world desperately trying to find his way back. I think she should have just used DustFinger and his personal quest as the central confilct of the book.
There is also a great lack of creativity, Capricorn (the supposed evilest man in the world) is a cut-and-paste copy of Voldemort from Harry Potter, or Sauron from The Lord of the Rings. Capricorn's followers are the typical foolish buff guys, the classic henchmen of gangster movies which can get very annoying after a while. Mortarmor is the archetypical worried father, Elinor is the archetypical crazy aunt, and Meggie is the archetypical little girl. No creativity is used in the characters, each one is a classic cut-and-past copy of character types that have been used much too frequently.
But the lack of creativity does not only end with the characters, she spares no expense to sprinkle her lack of creative powers all over the central plot. The first hundred pages of the book could have come straight from The Lord of the Rings, and in fact if you describe the plot of the first hundred pages, but leave out the names of the characters, it is an exact copy of Lord of the Rings.
"A mysterious(Gandalf in LOTR/DustFinger in Inkheart) visitor comes to two people (Frodo and Bilbo in Lotr/Meggie and Mo in Inkheart) living in a small country town. The mysterious visitor says that an extrodinary evil has risen again (Sauron in Lotr/ Capricorn in Inkheart) and that the two country people hold the one super powerfull object that can give the evil ultimate power (the ring in Lotr/ The green book in Inkheart). So the two people set off with the mysterious visitor and go to a familar but far away place (The town of Bree in lotr/ Elinor's house in Inkheart)" see? Almost an exact copy of Lord of the Rings.
But luckily the plot changes quite a bit from there, i dont know what i would have done if it continued to copy Lord of the Rings. But her idea is not clever at all, the idea of someone reading and things popping out of the book that they are reading from has been a plot done many times over in the past.
So all in all, the lack of creativity used in the characters and plot causes this book to be down right horrid and annoying. They are making a movie from the book in 2006, and hopefully the director will have some creativity and will be able to make something out of this horrid book.