Inkheart- Cornelia Funke

Today's extra special guest blogger is a returning hero, Melody Howder. She is tackling on of the epic fantasy cycles that seemed to spring up in the wake of Harry Potter' success. In my humble opinion, it's better then most, but let's see what she has to say...

Inkheart is about a girl named Meggie who lives with her father Mo. Mo has a special power that can read characters in and out of books when he reads out loud. If he reads something out of the book something from his world has to go into the book. When Meggie was young, Mo read the book Inkheart (the title of the book with in the book) to find himself reading is wife into book while taking out of the books two bad guys named Basta and Capricorn. After ten years pass, a good guy (sometimes bad) that also came out of the book named Dustfinger comes to warn them about all the bad things Basta, Capricorn, and the rest of their crew have done. Meggie and Mo then go on an adventure to put Dustfinger back into Inkheart and to restore everything to normal. Inkheart is a beautiful piece of magic for any age. It tells you how powerful magic, books, and words can be. Warning: this book is very thick and very detailed. If you don’t like long and detailed books, then this is not ideal. Inkheart has two sequels: Inkspell and Inkdeath. Inkheart will be major motion picture on January 23, 2009.

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