Book Review of 'Inkheart' by Cornelia Funke

Premise:

One cruel night, Meggie's father reads aloud from a book called INKHEART-- and an evil ruler escapes the boundaries of fiction and lands in their living room. Suddenly, Meggie is smack in the middle of the kind of adventure she has only read about in books. Meggie must learn to harness the magic that has conjured this nightmare. For only she can change the course of the story that has changed her life forever.





Beguiling and Magical

You will read this bestselling book with rapt attention, unfolding a story about a twelve year old girl named Meggie whose mother disappeared nine years ago and meets villains she thought she’d only meet in fairy tales. Ever since, she had been living alone with her father, a simple bookbinder. An evil ruler named Capricorn escaped from the boundaries of the book, landing in their living room, all those years ago after Meggie’s father read out loud from a book called Inkheart. He and his men keep following Meggie’s father because he has two things they want. A special book (that her father doesn’t want to give up, because it has a connection to Meggie’s missing mother), and her father’s “services” (which Capricorn wants to force him to use for evil, and is also connected to her mother’s disappearance). 
Meggie slowly finds out why her father never read out loud to her in her entire life, what Capricorn wants with her father, and what really happened to her mother. Her father has a special talent that Meggie secretly wishes she had even though it was the cause of everything happening to her. Even after they escape from Capricorn’s village, they find Meggie again and take her, and the author of Inkheart, knowing that her father will then come of his own accord. However, Meggie and the author find a way to save themselves, and everyone else. 
My favorite part of the book is the end, when everyone is safely at home, including Meggie’s mother. The second book in the series is called Inkspell, and the third/last book is called Inkdeath. This book is for ages nine and up. The theme of this book is The number of pages for each chapter varies. On a scale of one through five, I would rate this book five stars.

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- Candria

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