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3.88 AVERAGE
3.88 AVERAGE
Never finished reading this series as a kid but I'm revisiting old middle grade faves
I read this novel as a child an innumerable amount of times so I must admit one reason why I love this book is the childhood nostalgia of it. Re-reading this as an adult, I still got the same sensation of being entirely absorbed inside another world. Dustfinger remains my favourite character and I wish there had been more chapters from his perspective. The concepts in this book are really interesting and although the themes are dark it feels like a good introduction to children that the world isn’t as good or benevolent as adults would like them to believe. Cornelia Funke is a beautiful writer. I felt like I could truly imagine the characters as real people and visualise the settings in vivid detail. One criticism is the length of the novel, I feel like cutting it down would have made it more effective and I understand why people found the story to have been dragged out. Overall, a wonderful read and reiterated my love of the fantasy genre.
adventurous
emotional
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Tintenherz ist eine meiner Lieblingslektüren aus meiner Kindheit.
Die wunderbare Erzählung der beiden Welten ist so magisch und wundervoll, dass ich auch später immer noch gerne zu ihr zurückkehre. Die Handlung von Tintenherz ist ein wahr gewordener Lesertraum mit einzigartigen Charakteren.
Jeder träumt davon, seine Lieblingsfigur zum Leben zu erwecken, diese Autorin hat unseren Traum verwirklicht.
Abirami Jayabal
This was honestly only halfway decent...I probably should have known that before I even started reading it, since Brendan Fraser is only cast as characters from halfway decent book adaptations. Honestly, the pace was just WAY TOO SLOW for me, and I didn't even finish it because I didn't connect enough with the characters to care about what ended up happening to them. Overall: overhyped.
Meggie has never heard her father read aloud from a book before. Little does she know, this stems from an incident which occurred when she was younger. You see, Meggie's father has an unusual skill, when he reads out loud, sometimes the characters come to life. And this is exactly what happened that night long ago, and now his past is back to haunt him. Capricorn and his evil sidekick, Basta, are villains who were read out of the book Inkheart by Meggie's father twelve years ago, and now they are on the rise, hunting down the remaining copies of the book in hopes that they might never return to the world from which they were sprung. When Meggie discovers her father's secret she swears to do whatever it takes to destroy Capricorn and protect her family.
I struggled with this one. I had been putting off reading it for such a long time though that I knew I just had to do it. This book is really well loved so even though I had prepared myself that it would be long, I expected to enjoy it on the whole. However, there were a few things that tampered my enjoyment of this book. For one thing, the characters were hit or miss for me. The problem was that there was a lot of telling but not showing and as a result the characters were never really fleshed out. I found that for a time I'd enjoy a character but then they'd become childish and lose their appeal.
This probably also had something to do with my second point which was the repetitive nature of the book. I enjoyed the plot of the first half of the book, Meggie's father was captured by Capricorn and his men so Meggie and her aunt went on a mission to save him which was all well and exciting, but then in part two, if I'm not mistaken (apologies it's been a minute since I read this), Meggie's father is captured by Capricorn and his men so Meggie and her aunt go on a mission to save him. Sound familiar?
This book wasn't a total loss though. Probably my favorite thing was how there was a different quote which preceded each chapter. At first I didn't really pay attention to them but as the book went on they were a lot of fun to read as they did such a great job of setting the scene for the chapter that followed. Another thing I liked was how perfectly the author captured the essence of being a bookworm. There were so many little things that I could (sometimes embarrassingly) relate to and as someone who doesn't meet many people who love books as much as I do it felt like someone finally understood the everyday struggles of being a book nerd.
I'll leave you with one of my favorite quotes from the book: " To think of all the times I've wished I could slip right into one of my favorite books. But that's the advantage of reading-you can shut the book whenever you want." Happy Reading :)
I struggled with this one. I had been putting off reading it for such a long time though that I knew I just had to do it. This book is really well loved so even though I had prepared myself that it would be long, I expected to enjoy it on the whole. However, there were a few things that tampered my enjoyment of this book. For one thing, the characters were hit or miss for me. The problem was that there was a lot of telling but not showing and as a result the characters were never really fleshed out. I found that for a time I'd enjoy a character but then they'd become childish and lose their appeal.
This probably also had something to do with my second point which was the repetitive nature of the book. I enjoyed the plot of the first half of the book, Meggie's father was captured by Capricorn and his men so Meggie and her aunt went on a mission to save him which was all well and exciting, but then in part two, if I'm not mistaken (apologies it's been a minute since I read this), Meggie's father is captured by Capricorn and his men so Meggie and her aunt go on a mission to save him. Sound familiar?
This book wasn't a total loss though. Probably my favorite thing was how there was a different quote which preceded each chapter. At first I didn't really pay attention to them but as the book went on they were a lot of fun to read as they did such a great job of setting the scene for the chapter that followed. Another thing I liked was how perfectly the author captured the essence of being a bookworm. There were so many little things that I could (sometimes embarrassingly) relate to and as someone who doesn't meet many people who love books as much as I do it felt like someone finally understood the everyday struggles of being a book nerd.
I'll leave you with one of my favorite quotes from the book: " To think of all the times I've wished I could slip right into one of my favorite books. But that's the advantage of reading-you can shut the book whenever you want." Happy Reading :)
This was a book club book. I knew i wasn't going to finish before book club so i read the plot synopsis on wikipedia and the premise of the book just wasn't intriguing to me. I got about half way through the book and it was ok, but it didn't really capture my attention. but then my grandfather fell ill, i didn't go to the book club meeting, then my grandfather passed away and anyway, i am moving on to something new.
adventurous
dark
emotional
hopeful
lighthearted
mysterious
sad
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
adventurous
challenging
emotional
inspiring
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A
adventurous
challenging
emotional
medium-paced
"Books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them."