Inkheart (Inkheart Trilogy)
by Cornelia Funke
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Book Reviews of Inkheart (Inkheart Trilogy)
Book Review: "A book worth reading by a long shot."
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a brilliant book. Very brilliant, and kudos to Cornelia Funke for writing it. This cunningly written tale ensues adventure, hope,evil, and humour. (Even though none of those things are closely related.) It begins with a girl named Meggie and her father, a bookbinder, oh, and books. During a stormy night Meggie has trouble getting to sleep and sees a figure standing in the rain, she warns Mo. (Short for Mortimer, this is what she calls her father.) This is where her adventure begins.
She meets some rather nasty characters, some kind figures she feels as though she had known all her life, and some middling and longing people. (To be more exact some ink people.) She discovers both her father and her have an extrordinary talent beyond words ( It is literally matched with ink reality, if that makes sense,read the book, if not read this glorious story anyway.)
This heart-warming story is sure to make even book haters happy. And at the first chance you supposedly get buy this book at your local book store, I hope this review has been persuasive enough.
By the way I am dying to give out more information on this book, but I just can't if you know what I mean.
I reccomend this for ages 9-infinety, and I also recommend the sequel Inkspell (another great book)
Book Review: WOW!!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
Oh my gosh, I love this book!! I can't wait to read Inkspell ( I haven't read it yet)! If anyone likes harry potter, or other such serieses, you will like this book.
Meggie, who's father has the ability to make thing come to life from the pages of the books he reads aloud. Maggies always wondered why he won't read aloud to her. Why, is because when Meggie was a toddler, he read aloud 3 criminals in the books inkheart, taking his wife, and two cats into the story! Then, one of the criminals ( he's kinda the lowly guy that doesn't really like the main bad guy, Capricorn) comes one night to Meggie's home. He says that Capricorn is after her father, to read aloud treasure and a EVIL friend of his, the Shadow. So, they go to her aunts to hide the book ( which by the way, is a total bookworm. She calls her books her children!) and Capricorn's men sneak into there at night, and take away her father! Her aunt and Dustfinger and Meggie, edventuly go to Capricorns village and get caught. I won't tell you any more, you can read the book yourself! If you think that because the book is so thick, that you won't want to read it, your wrong! Just take a few hours a week, and sit down with this stunning tale! You won't be dispointed!!
Book Review: Inkheart
Summary: 5 Stars
I couldn't put Inkheart down because it has so much excitement also I like some of the characters. I like the description of every chapter and how the author tells how each character feels. It has cruelty, excitement, and you don't know what will happen next. Also once you put the book down you end up thinking about what will happen next and you read it again.
Inkheart is the best book I ever read, besides Inkspell. The characters weren't described much but when I read it, I felt like I got was in the story. I stayed up half the night to read the book even though it was really late. I never really like fantasy stories until I read Dragon Rider, Inkheart, In Inkspell, and the Theif Lord. Inkheart is like a journey, once you pick up the book. My favorite characters are Farid, Basta, and Resa even though they don't get mentioned a lot in the book or the main characters.
I rate this book 10 out of 10 because it is not dull, it is exciting, also interesting, easy to read and understand, and I recommend this book to anyone who can read or loves fantasy stories. This story is described as dramatic, best, inspiring, nerve racking, awesome, and the greatest book to me.
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: Kids Fantasy book... adult language
Summary: 3 Stars
I bought this book for the 8 year child of my best friend because I loved "The Thief Lord". As I do with all unfamiliar kids books I read it first. I was glad I did because I was slightly shocked by the themes and language in the book. Not shocked for myself but shocked for the kids reading it.
The story itself was a pretty well constructed fantasy plot about a bookbinder who can read characters out of books. The fantasy aspect didn't appeal to me as much personally as did the more believable plot in "Thief Lord", however it will appeal to any kid into fantasy and books such as The Narnia Chronicles, Harry Potter or Lord of the Rings.
This book is definitely darker than those in a lot of ways. The violence seemed more specific than implied. Even the implied violence seems a little beyond what your average 6 - 10 year old should be reading about. (i.e. sex and rape, etc.) There is some swearing in the book too which I thought was unnecessary in a children's book. Even Harry Potter didn't go there!
By the way... my friend's kid already had the book so I guess I didn't need to worry about offending his parents with my gift!