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Loading... Inkdeath (Inkheart Trilogy) (original 2007; edition 2010)by Cornelia Funke
Work InformationInkdeath by Cornelia Funke (2007)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. The story was good but it seemed a bit drawn out. ( ) By far the best in the trilogy. I throughly enjoyed this, likely owing to the level of anxiety caused by so many perils. Peril is the operative word here. Every chapter, every page, with enough breathing space not to exhaust the reader. The writer has created a universe that will stay in the mind long after it’s finished. The only negatives are a few flaws. I wasn’t able to connect with Dustfinger to the extent I did in the other books, but I still loved him enough to overlook this. And Meggie didn’t seem to have such a starring role. It’s also hard to see Mo change so much. Still, the tension carries this book and makes it my favourite of the three. It is finished. I managed to read the entire trilogy, all 50 pounds of it. I am convinced the author needs a lesson in word economy. As wonderful as the story is, there are times where the words just keep going and going and going. It is as though she was under the same delusion of grandeur that Fenoglio and Orpheus suffered. Despite my complaints, I still enjoyed this book. The last 100 pages are fantastic - all story lines collided and came to a satisfactory end. Inkdeath is the conclusion to the inkheart trilogy. The book picks up where Inkspell left off, and brings the reader on various twists and turns along the way. The story is fine, but I found it had more weaknesses than the previous two. While I enjoyed a lot of it, I found the book very lengthy, without adequate time on the relationships between characters. Meggie is largely sidelined, which is unfortunate as she played such a major role previously, and Elinor is barely there. Meggie and Farid's relationship just kind of fizzles out, and we flash forward to her with a new character. Orpheus becomes the new villain, and at the end just flees North - and somehow never bothers them again? The story winds up feeling rushed at the end, despite being a nearly 700 page children's book. Though I loved Inkheart, the conclusion fell a bit flat for me. Still an enjoyable read, but I am not sure it stuck the landing for me. no reviews | add a review
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As Bluejay--Mo's fictitious double--tries to keep the Book of Immortality from unraveling, Adderhead kidnaps all the children in the kingdom, asking for Bluejay's surrender or the children will be doomed to slavery in the silver mines. No library descriptions found. |
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