Inkheart (Inkworld #1)

Reader reviewed by tf3196

right now i am going to only discuss the beginning of this book becasue why spoil an ending right? well it alll starts off with this book. it's famous for reasons you will have to find out. mysterious people come into play.

i love this book. it is all about mystery and what not and an entirely awsome book!

Reader reviewed by sandy

This was the best book i've ever read. I can tell if any book is a good book because if it is, I should be in the bookworld( it's what I call the place I end up in while I'm reading a book).I already read the sequel Inkspell. Now I'm waiting for the third series. I feel tingly all over! Can't wait to see what happens next! Just to let you know, Meggie and Farid are having a relationship!

Reader reviewed by Carmen



I love this book! I think that it is the kind of book that makes you want to fall in and not be able to get back out, even after you are finished reading it. I have been meeting up with a lot of old friends lately and we've been talking about our all-time favorites...every one of us said Inkheart! When I first read Inkheart I was 12, just like Meggie. I loved her story so much that I went out and bought one of those wooden boxes that they sell at craft stores and painted it poppy red
with golden, curly letters that read "Carmen's Treasure Chest" and made sure that it was big enough to hold my hardback copy of Inkheart.(read it and you'll see what I am talking about) If you are obsessed with a good book, like me, please tell me all about it!
[email protected]

Reader reviewed by Issabella Inkwell

This book is amazing in every aspect: adventure, magic, and just everything. This book actually inspired me to write one of my own after having a three month writer's block. So, I highly reccomend it. It amazes me that someone can write a book so well about a book.

Reader reviewed by pam

i think that the book was great. maggie's dad can read people out of book, how cool is that! when she was little her dad accidently read bad guys from the book and maggie's mom into the book. years later she finds out that she can do that too. this book is full of magic and secrets that maggie had not known until her dad's past comes to get them.

Reader reviewed by Amber Halliwell

Inkheart by Cornelia Funkee is an awesome book. My uncle, a book lover, was reading six books at the time when he came accross Inkheart. He stopped reading all six just to read Inkheart. He fell in love with it and then passed it onto me.

Mo and Meg have always lived happily together. Mo, Meg's father, and Meg are always moving from house to house with all of their books. They are obsessed with books. Once they start one they can't put it down. But then one night a mysterious stranger called Dustfinger shows up at their door and begins to call Mo, Silvertoung. Dustfinger begins to raise questions in Meg's head like why has her father never read aloud to her? But then the day after Dustfinger's visit Mo and Meg go to Meg's aunt's house. Her aunt has the Europes and the world's largest collection of books. Meg and Mo are in love with them all. Of course the Aunt dosen't have every book. She just has most. But then up pops Dustfinger again and he begins to raise questions in Meg's head. Then Mo is kidnapped and it is up to Meg, her aunt and Dustfinger to save him.

On their adventure they meet a weird creature, are helped and betrayed by the friend, meet an author, learn a secret, discover a power, find Meg's mother and make some enimes.

I hope you enjoy this book as much as I did! If you are looking for some more enjoyable books by Cornelia Funkee you should read Theif Lord. I am currently in the middle of it and love it!

Reader reviewed by JES (I am very modest LOL)

Mortimer is a bookbinder and has passed on his great love of books to his daughter Meggie, but he has never read aloud to her. When a stranger named Dustfinger appears at their home, Meggie's world turns upside down. She soon learns some startling truths --- about her mother's disappearance nine years earlier, and the mysterious book called INKHEART that her father tries desperately to hide at the book-filled home of Elinor, Meggie's great aunt. She learns that the reason Mo has never read aloud to her is because he has a secret, mysterious, dangerous gift --- when he reads aloud, objects and charaters come out of the books --- a skill he discovered when Capricorn, the dark villain of INKHEART, came into the world when Meggie was three. Teresa, Meggie's mother, disappeared at the same time, presumably into the story. Now they are on an adventure that has been experetely written by cornelia funke. READ THE BOOK!

Reader reviewed by taylor

ok i am tf3196, just a different nick name. At first i only talked about the beggining but now i am going to talk about the ending or the rest of the story. what happens is whe mo reads aloud things come to life right in front of your eyes. one day something went terribly wrong. his wife went in a book and three people came out. two were evil. well they end up going back tot he book and evil people. the first time they escaped. but can hey escape this time? only you can tell int his excellent novel

Reader reviewed by Sunny

Maggie discovers something new about her family, her father. He has a great ability that is also a curse. He can read things, and people, out of stories! That leaves the pages open for many troublesome adventures!

Cornila Funke has written several books over the past years and all of them are fantastic. This one takes the page though! Inkheart drew me in. It is fantastic how Funke combines the mythical world of the book with reality. Bad guys never change and heros will always battle with the past but in this case they are mixed well with each other and create an awesome story that even continues in a second book! I am glad someone came up with this power for I would never have thought of reading someone out of a novel. If you could do it, who would you read aloud?

Reader reviewed by Mairi

One night, Meggie looks out her bedroom window to see a man, who calls himself Dustfinger and refers to her father Mo as Silvertongue, standing in the yard, and after that her life is never the same again. Dustfinger and his marten Gwin, she soon learns, come from another world, a world that exists only between the pages of a book. Nine years ago, Mo accidently read them out of their home along with the villain of the story- Capricorn.

Years ago, this book was one of my favorites, and I decided to reread it after I read Inkdeath. I maintain that Inkdeath is the best book in the trilogy, but Inkheart does have a sort of magic to it that Inkdeath lacks. It is also most beautiful when read by someone who knows how the story is going to end, as there are occasional references to Meggie looking back on the events described years later.

 

All in all, the Inkworld Trilogy is an excellent fantasy, but Inkheart should be read by all book lovers, who will probably want to read it over and over again as I do- it gets better every time.