Author:Cornelia Funke Binding: Hardcover Published: 2008-09-26 ISBN: 0439866286 Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0
"Sad to see it end this way"
"The all-time best children's author of our time."
"Good, but not spectacular"
"Wonderful ending to a wonderful trilogy!"
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The Adderhead--his immortality bound in a book by Meggie's father, Mo--has ordered his henchmen to plunder the villages. The peasants' only defense is a band of outlaws led by the Bluejay--Mo's fictitious double, whose identity he has reluctantly adopted. But the Book of Immortality is unraveling, and the Adderhead again fears the White Women of Death. To bring the renegade Bluejay back to repair the book, the Adderhead kidnaps all the children in the kingdom, dooming them to slavery in his silver mines unless Mo surrends. First Dustfinger, now Mo: Can anyone save this cursed story?
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0
Sad to see it end this way Perhaps this book is payback for Cornelia Funke allowing filmmakers to destroy "Inkheart" for their, I don't know, convenience maybe, a la "Eragon." This book reads as though Ms. Funke struggled with the burden of tying up a thousand loose ends in her immense story-world, struggled and surrendered. I was the reader who brought to life the "Inkheart" trilogy, reading aloud to my family. We came to love the Inkworld in all its rich detail, warmly fleshed-out characters, and fairy tale roster of fantasy... more info
The all-time best children's author of our time. I love Cornelia Funke and anything she writes. I recently discovered a book that told of a young lady that put the original german text of one of her beloved tales onto the hands of the Hary Potter Series publisher. I am so grateful for that! This book was an AMAZING conclusion to the series! Full of new characters and the ones I have come to care about, too. I am DYING to see how they roll this new Favorite Fairytale out in Hollywood. Just 22 days from the moment I am writing this until the movie version... more info
Good, but not spectacular I was highly anticipating the release of Inkdeath for months and months, and was hoping that it would conclude the trilogy with as much style and flair as Inkheart began the story and Inkspell continued it. In some regards I was disappointed, but in others was satisfied.
Overall the book is much darker than Inkheart or Inkspell, and I found the middle rather dragging. However, the darkness works with the story and makes sense. After all, the book is called Inkdeath. Cornelia Funke's husband died while... more info
Wonderful ending to a wonderful trilogy! I got this book for Christmas and just started reading it yesterday, and I finished it this afternoon! I could not put it down. The book is wonderfully well-written and I couldn't have asked for a better ending. The beginning of the book starts off a bit slow, and luckily there is an "A to Z of Inkheart" in the back to remind you of who all the characters are (since it does get a little confusing), but even considering this the story captivated me just as it did in Inkheart and Inkspell. Funke has... more info
