A review by merleita
Reckless: Reckless, Book 1 by Lionel Wigram, Cornelia Funke

4.0

The worldbuilding in this was great, but most of the characters didn't really connect with me. There's a lot of telling rather than showing and a rather forced love triangle. Fox was the one exception, as I found her relationship with her different forms complex and interesting (reminded me of some queer allegories, although I doubt that was intentional). I thought the romance was the weakest part of the Inkheart trilogy and that is also the case here. Like Inkheart though, this book excels at showing a dark yet enticing fantasy world. The world behind the mirror is filled with dark fairy tale things and makes it very clear that it will kill anyone who doesn't know precisely what they are doing. I'm not sure if I'll read more of this series, but I enjoyed this book well enough.