Inkheart (Inkheart Trilogy) by Cornelia Funke Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Inkheart (Inkheart Trilogy)
Book Review: For Grown-up Book Nuts as well!
Summary: 5 Stars
Inkheart is a young adult fantasy novel in the same vein as Harry Potter. It is the story of a young girl, Meggie, who has a special gift she inherited from her father, Mo. She can read stories to life. Of course, heroes are not the only ones read out of stories and, subsequently, Meggie and her father must vanquish the evil Capricorn and find Meggie's mother who has been missing for nine years. Besides the action and the delightful characters, the book is filled with tributes to those who love reading and books and each chapter is preceded by a quote from great pieces of literature such as Peter Pan and Treasure Island. I highly recommend this book to any lover of words and stories.
Book Review: GREAT book (even for an adult)
Summary: 5 Stars
Ever since the Harry Potter phenomenon I now read youth novels as well as adult. I'm 22, my sister who is 25 read and loved them too. Inkheart and Inkspell were GREAT!! I can't wait for the movie!!!!!Book Review: Good book
Summary: 4 Stars
Even though at the moment there are already around 484 customer reviews, I am going to write my own on this book. It is at least 500 pages long, and is worth it. The story's main characters are Mo, the father of his 12 year old daughter, Meggie, who can both read aloud and make things come out of books (the Tin Soldier, Tinkerbell, gold, lizards, etc.). One day when Meggie was only 3, Mo was reading aloud to her and her mom, Teresa, from a book called InkHeart. Teresa goes missing, and in her place, 2 villians, Basta and Capricorn, as well as a fire eater named Dustfinger and his marten, Gwin, end up in their living room, a little shaky from the travel from their book to the real world. All the book characters ask to be read back to their world, but since Mo doesn't even know how they got to his world, he cannot do it, and drives them out of the house. Now, around 9 years later, Dustfinger appears at their door telling them Carpicorn is looking for Mo, and so they journey to Teresa's aunt's home near a lake in Italy, who is passionate for books, and dislikes children. Capricorn's men find Mo, and take him and Inkheart (which he was trying to hide in the home amidst all the other hundreds or thousands of books) away. Meggie is deeply upset, and sets out with her great aunt and Dustfinger to save Mo and give Capricorn the book (which Meggie found her great aunt had replaced with another book in order to read it), but the rescue mission is a failure, as Dustfinger betrayed them because Capricorn told him he would get to go back into the book. I am not going to spoil anymore in the book, for it is too long and good to tell about. 8D I think this is an great book to read if you have lots of time.Book Review: Good idea, but the execution of it falters...
Summary: 3 Stars
I decided to read Inkheart after seeing the film a couple of months ago. I'd heard generally positive reviews of the book for years, just never got around to it before the movie release. It's taken me about two months to finish this incredibly dense, seemingly never-ending tome. The novel really failed to "hook" me, so it was too easy to read only a few pages at a time instead of powering on through all 500 pages. The concept is fantastic - what avid reader hasn't, at one point or another, wished either to enter the world of a novel, or hoped that his or her favorite characters were real? I know I have. The idea holds so much promise - what could it mean if someone could read characters, the good and the bad, out of a book? Through Mo the "Silvertongue" reader and his daughter Meggie, Funke takes readers to a place where the line between fiction and reality becomes irrevocably broken. The idea is a fiction lover's dream, but the execution of said idea left me less than enthralled. Funke does an excellent job of world-crafting, but so much time is spent building the world of the novel that I felt left with elaborate sets filled, for the most part (with the exception of Dustfinger), with characters I cared very little about. In a 500-plus page book that clearly aims to be an epic tale of danger and adventure, the lack of main characters that I really connected with too often made the read a chore rather than an escape. That being said, Dustfinger is a welcome exception - his fears, uncertainties, and driving desire to return home all provide welcome emotional depth and resonance to the storyline. The other characters are very "flat," and the plot is generally slow-moving and meandering, with occasional exciting episodes that jerk the story forward just a tad. It's quite possible that Inkheart works best as part one of a trilogy, but since this volume was so hard to get through I have serious doubts about whether or not I'll ever try to finish the series. For me the movie took the good ideas of the book, made the characters more interesting & sympathetic, and improved the pacing and emotional stakes of the storyline. I'm glad I finished the book, but it was too plodding (I wonder if the fact that I'm reading a translation impacts readability?) to make it worth revisiting anytime in the future.Book Review: Great Novel
Summary: 4 Stars
This book is not just a childrens fantasy novel, it is a book for all ages. It starts off a little slow and takes a while to get going but once I got into it I couldn't put it down. I am about to read Inkspell and cannot wait. The characters are delightful especially the evil ones. The movie will be great.