Title: Inkspell
Author: Cornelia Funke
Rating: 80 billion stars
Although a year has passed, not a day goes by without Meggie thinking of INKHEART, the book whose characters became real. But for Dustfinger, the fire-eater brought into being from words, the need to return to the tale has become desperate. When he finds a crooked storyteller with the ability to read him back, Dustfinger leaves behind his young apprentice Farid and plunges into the medieval world of his past. Distraught, Farid goes in search of Meggie, and before long, both are caught inside the book, too. But the story is threatening to evolve in ways neither of them could ever have imagined.
As I said in my last review, the Inkheart Trilogy gets
better with every book! Inkspell was mind blowing. Cornelia Funke shows us how
fragile mortality is in such a beautiful way as we watch one of our main
characters struggle for his life and watch another lose his. The world inside
of Fenoglio's book is one of the absolute best places ever. It's filled with
not so wonderful behaving people (I'm looking at you Piper and Adderhead), but
there are others who are incredible (the Black Prince!)
The plot is strung together as beautifully as all of
Cornelia Funke's books are! Her books are (in my opinion) very character driven
(which I love), and we are introduced to some very, very amazing characters.
The Strolling Players and their "king", The Black Prince, are some of
my all-time favorite characters. I absolutely adored the Prince and the Strong
Man, and I often don't think readers give them enough credit. All of the old
characters are back and just as lively and amazing as they were in the first
book. I loved watching the relationship between Farid and Dustfinger grow. It
really was as if Farid were Dustfinger’s son.
Often times, I wanted to slap Fenoglio. I liked his
character, don't get me wrong, but he didn't always make the best choices. I
liked Dustfinger in the first book, but I thought his character really shined
in Inkspell. Maybe because he was back home, but he was epic. I actually don't
like admitting this, but I kind of adored the Piper. He was deliciously evil,
and I loved it (and to think he only gets worse in the third book!) I liked him
as our vilian more than I did the Adderhead.
I did feel really bad for the Adderhead's daughter Violante,
but she had a great friend in Dustfinger's daughter...even though that
friendship was threatened at one point.
All I ever do in reviews in talk about my love of
characters, but Cornelia Funke writes such amazing ones it's hard not to talk
about them! Read the book, and you'll see what I'm talking about!
