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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. The second book in the Inkheart series. This is a much darker book than the first, Capricorn and the Shadow may be gone but the main characters have been transported into the Inkworld and now face the Adderhead. Funke effortless plays with an author's relationship with their characters, I love how Fenoglio despairs as his characters slip from his control as the world becomes reality. A wonderfully imaginative book and one that stimulates the imagination. ( )read 2x. The characters from Inkheart find themselves in Inkworld. Favorite characters Meggie and Dustfinger are featured prominently throughout the text as new and old enemies make their lives challenging. Story contains plenty of adventure, suspense, magic and romance. The tale wraps up some lose ends while setting up the next installment, Inkdeath. This book could have used another round of editing -- too many commas and oddly formed sentences, especially in the last few chapters. (Amy) I really love these books. They handle story-as-story quite beautifully, and the way Fenoglio's created world has taken on a life of its own sounds disturbingly like things I've heard real-world authors say about their own created worlds having taken twists they hadn't forseen (though I strongly doubt any of them ever had their lives actively threatened by their creations...). It's all very meta and incredibly awesome. I recommend these books to all people between the ages of 10 and 15, and to everyone older than that who likes to think about the trappings of story and why they fit together the way they do. Very good stuff. Can't wait until Inkdeath gets to the top of the to-read list. ( http://weblog.siliconcerebrate.com/ze... ) This is book two of Ink heart, that being said it was a good book with different twists. Finding the author of the Ink heart book they come up with a plan to write more in to the book for Mo to read so Capricorn can not kill them all. 0.042 seconds to build listing no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com (ISBN 0439554004, Hardcover)Just a few chapters into Inkspell, Mo (a.k.a. "Silvertongue") sagely says to his daughter, "Stories never really end, Meggie, even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories always go on. They don't end on the last page, any more than they begin on the first page." A fitting meta-observation for this, the unplanned second installment in Cornelia Funke's beloved now-trilogy.Of course, it's that sort of earnest, almost gushing veneration of books and book-loving that made the absorbing suspense-fantasy Inkheart so wonderful in the first place, with that lit-affection getting woven integrally into the plot (Inkheart being both Funke's first book in the series, and the fictitious book within that book, authored by the frustrated Fenoglio, now trapped within the book, er, within the book. Fenoglio, perhaps not surprisingly, self-referentially wishes in Inkspell that he had written a sequel to Inkheart.) Inkspell should serve as a special treat for fans of the first book, as characters from Inkheart who have found themselves in the "real world" (if there is such a thing) find themselves read back into their own mythic, word-spun world--along with some of our favorite "real-world" characters. As with the previous book, Funke's greatest accomplishment here is telling such a rich and involving (and fun!) story, while still managing sweet, subtle commentary on the nature of words and meaning. Expect a tantalizing finale, too--as Funke says, "No reader will forgive me the ending, though, without a part three." (Ages 8 and up) --Paul Hughes (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:57:52 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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