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3.88 AVERAGE
3.88 AVERAGE
Great read. Took me longer to read but not because it wasn’t interesting. It’s very creative and reminds me why I love books. I just love Dustfinger!
Seit ich 11 bin, nenne ich diese Trilogie, wenn man nach meinem Lieblingsbuch fragt. Als Kind und früher Teenager habe ich sie etliche Male gelesen. Dann folgte eine lange, lange Lesepause und nun bin ich endlich wieder in die Tintenwelt eingetaucht. Ich hatte Angst, dass ich die Bücher nicht mehr so sehr lieben würde, dass mir Makel auffallen würden, die ich als Kind übersehen habe. Vor allem, da auf Plattformen wie Booktube Tintenherz gelobt wird, die folgenden Bände aber eher als enttäuschend empfunden werden.
Trotz all dieser Sorgen und Ängste: ich habe mich endlich an Tintenblut gewagt, and let me tell you, ich liebe es noch immer. Die Charaktere!! Die Welt!! Die verstörende Realität, die magischen Aspekte, alles, alles! Die Charaktere fühlen sich an wie alte Freunde, die ich endlich wieder treffen konnte.
Dieses Meisterwerk hat meine Liebe für Fantasy entfacht und ich kann vollkommen nachvollziehen, wie diese Welt mein Herz erobert hat - und dieses nicht verlässt.
Trotz all dieser Sorgen und Ängste: ich habe mich endlich an Tintenblut gewagt, and let me tell you, ich liebe es noch immer. Die Charaktere!! Die Welt!! Die verstörende Realität, die magischen Aspekte, alles, alles! Die Charaktere fühlen sich an wie alte Freunde, die ich endlich wieder treffen konnte.
Dieses Meisterwerk hat meine Liebe für Fantasy entfacht und ich kann vollkommen nachvollziehen, wie diese Welt mein Herz erobert hat - und dieses nicht verlässt.
adventurous
emotional
inspiring
mysterious
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
It was waaaaaaaay too long, won’t be finishing the trilogy….
I will admit up front that I have a bias that is making it difficult for me to give this book a "fair" shake. I read this after my 9 year old daughter completed it, but after we have both read Inkheart. Based on the first book and the marketing I was expecting this one to also be reasonable age-appropriate. It is not.
While Inkheart did a moderately decent job of fleshing out a couple of the characters, Inkspell did not further that cause doing little to expand upon what you already knew about the characters and new characters were very two-dimensional. More importantly, this book has situations that are completely inappropriate for a child of my daughter's age (shame on me I guess for not exercising due diligence before she read the book). Specifically, a greater degree of explicit violence than the first as well as 14 year olds engaged in sexual relationships with married men.
At best it would be a 3 star book, regardless of my bias, but given who t hey are targeting the book towards it's barely a 2.
While Inkheart did a moderately decent job of fleshing out a couple of the characters, Inkspell did not further that cause doing little to expand upon what you already knew about the characters and new characters were very two-dimensional. More importantly, this book has situations that are completely inappropriate for a child of my daughter's age (shame on me I guess for not exercising due diligence before she read the book). Specifically, a greater degree of explicit violence than the first as well as 14 year olds engaged in sexual relationships with married men.
At best it would be a 3 star book, regardless of my bias, but given who t hey are targeting the book towards it's barely a 2.
Inkspell is the 2nd book in a trilogy that started with Inkheart. that 1st book was one of the best books that i ever read with my son. we both loved it and we even liked the recently released movie, even though it was beaten up pretty badly by the critics.
similar to another book i read recently, Inkspell suffers from 2nd book disease...following a smash hit debut that probably was not supposed to have a sequel anyways, while preparing the story for a 3rd book in the contractually obligated series. Inkspell is entertaining, extremely well written and fun, but it does not rise to the very high bar set by Inkheart.
on the plus side, Cornelia Funke's writing is still mesmerizing. i find this quite remarkable, as the books are written originally in German and then translated by another writer. i have never thought of German as a lyrical language...but either the source German is remarkable or the translator is a magician.
in any case, the story is good enough to keep me reading into the 3rd book some day soon. Inkdeath, here i come...
similar to another book i read recently, Inkspell suffers from 2nd book disease...following a smash hit debut that probably was not supposed to have a sequel anyways, while preparing the story for a 3rd book in the contractually obligated series. Inkspell is entertaining, extremely well written and fun, but it does not rise to the very high bar set by Inkheart.
on the plus side, Cornelia Funke's writing is still mesmerizing. i find this quite remarkable, as the books are written originally in German and then translated by another writer. i have never thought of German as a lyrical language...but either the source German is remarkable or the translator is a magician.
in any case, the story is good enough to keep me reading into the 3rd book some day soon. Inkdeath, here i come...
3 - didn’t like it as much as I did when I read it as a teenager. It’s still very enthralling though.
Another nostalgia read for me, but one that holds up well. I loved the Inkheart books as a kid—pored over them obsessively, copied out the end-chapter illustrations in my notebooks, and was always mulling on the concept in the back of my mind. It's one of the solid YA books I read as a kid that I think influenced me to want to write as an adult. Reading this for the first time in my adulthood, I can really see how Funke shines as an author; she's not only good at writing a story that hangs well together, but her characters are so brave, kind, and believable—the perfect balance to strike for a children's novel, I think. I remember crying when Dustfinger sacrificed himself to save Farid at the end of the book—a moment that was so sad to my child self that I never gave Inkspell a reread, though I read Inkheart many, many times. Dragon Rider is another of her books that I loved back in the day, one that I'd enjoy reading again in adulthood if I could get my hands on a copy.
A bonus surprise in my copy of this book: a bookmark shoved in the middle dated March 26, 2009 (!) and titled "SAT Practice," followed by some poorly done math problems. Ah, so good to know my public school education will never really leave me.
A bonus surprise in my copy of this book: a bookmark shoved in the middle dated March 26, 2009 (!) and titled "SAT Practice," followed by some poorly done math problems. Ah, so good to know my public school education will never really leave me.
adventurous
emotional
funny
hopeful
mysterious
sad
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated