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A monumental third installment brings the Inkheart trilogy to a grueling, blood-spattered, mortality-obsessed close. The Inkworld is in disarray: Its author, Fenoglio, has lost his ability to write and, therefore, shape events; the odious Orpheus, however, has taken to recycling Fenoglio's words to control the narrative/world himself. The evil Adderhead, whose immortality was bound into the White Book by bookbinder-turned-people's champion Mo/the Bluejay, finds his body decomposing and demands a new Book; can Mo use the opportunity to end the villain's life altogether? Can Dustfinger come back from the dead? Will Resa's baby be born into peace or violence? Is Meggie falling out of love with Farid? (Thank goodness there's an A to Z of Names and Places!) Where the first volume was thoroughly young Meggie's story, this narrative alternates among a dizzying array of characters, most of whom are adults who betray distinctly adult concerns. While Funke's storytelling is as compelling as ever, the natural audience for this brooding saga seems, sadly, to be teens and up and not the children who so eagerly responded to Inkheart. (Fantasy. 13 & up) (Kirkus Reviews) --(Fantasy. 13 & up) (Kirkus Reviews)
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Life in the Inkworld has been far from easy since the extraordinary events of Inkspell, when the story of Inkheart magically drew Meggie, Mo and Dustfinger back into its pages. With Dustfinger dead, and the evil Adderhead now in control, the story in which they are all caught has taken an unhappy turn. Even Elinor, left alone in the real world, believes her family to be lost - lost between the covers of a book. But as winter comes on there is reason to hope - if only Meggie and Mo can rewrite the wrongs of the past and make a dangerous pact with death
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22 of 23 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I was 12 or 13 when I first found myself between the pages of Inkheart. I was taken directly into a world that was immediately believable, realistic, and completely original. I eagerly anticipated the release of Inkspell after hearing that Inkheart was the first in a trilogy, and I wasn't disappointed.
However, when I read Inkdeath, I found myself frustrated and annoyed with the direction that the storyline had gone. Although the first and second installments seemed to blend together almost perfectly, I felt as I was reading Inkdeath that it was less believable, realistic, and original. Firstly, I took me several chapters to get myself immersed into the events - I thought the initial few chapters were tedious, less flowing, almost as if the author had written the first two books in one single fluid sitting, but then had a long break before writing the third, and had forgotten what she had been writing about before. I felt that the frayed ends of Inkspell, the second book, had been clumsily, almost hastily glued onto the new threads of the third book Inkdeath.
I confess that although I did enjoy reading the book, I did not find it as pleasurable and ulitmately gripping as i found its two predecessors. I think it was a terrible mistake to eliminate Basta, as he's one of those charcters you love to hate. I didn't realise how much I missed him and his peppermint breath until I opened Inkdeath, and realised he was missing, missing, missing. It was like Silence of the Lambs without Hannibal, 1984 without Big Brother, Star Wars without Darth Vader. One of my main disappointments, however, concerned the Black Prince. In Inkspell, he was a charming, wondrous character with a personality as sharp as his throwing knives; but I was annoyed that in Inkdeath, he seemed to disappear completely, becoming nothing more than a dark figure in the distance, and less the prominent character he was in Inkspell. He barely featured at all in most chapters, other than to be relentlessly beaten and battered. And why even, would anyone in the story attempt to murder a character who seems to be weak in substance anyway? I got the impression that he was nothing more than a puppet figure, but with strings missing, or just a name on a page. I felt the same with Meggie too. In the first two books, she seemed to play the central role as a strong protagonist, similar to Lyra in "His Dark Materials" with that same mixture of vulnerability and strength, yet in this book it was her father, Mo, and his swinging sword that seemed to feature most.
I think most of my negative responses could be because I read Inkheart 4 years ago, but now I'm 16, and it did feel as if I was stepping into a children's book; this is probably why I criticised it so much when i was reading it because I think perhaps I've suddenly become to old for it. However, I do think it's a shame that either I have grown up too much to appreciate this book, or that somehow the original magic has been lost in the weaving of this final book. I'm more sad than annoyed that this book has happened. But to be honest, despite my age, or my opinions, I'd give anything for Cornelia Funke to rewrite this whole book again, take out the pointless subplots and the cliched, banal ending which I have read so many times before, and place more emphasis on already amazing existing characters rather than shoving in new ones. I'll give it a second chance if she does.
However, when I read Inkdeath, I found myself frustrated and annoyed with the direction that the storyline had gone. Although the first and second installments seemed to blend together almost perfectly, I felt as I was reading Inkdeath that it was less believable, realistic, and original. Firstly, I took me several chapters to get myself immersed into the events - I thought the initial few chapters were tedious, less flowing, almost as if the author had written the first two books in one single fluid sitting, but then had a long break before writing the third, and had forgotten what she had been writing about before. I felt that the frayed ends of Inkspell, the second book, had been clumsily, almost hastily glued onto the new threads of the third book Inkdeath.
I confess that although I did enjoy reading the book, I did not find it as pleasurable and ulitmately gripping as i found its two predecessors. I think it was a terrible mistake to eliminate Basta, as he's one of those charcters you love to hate. I didn't realise how much I missed him and his peppermint breath until I opened Inkdeath, and realised he was missing, missing, missing. It was like Silence of the Lambs without Hannibal, 1984 without Big Brother, Star Wars without Darth Vader. One of my main disappointments, however, concerned the Black Prince. In Inkspell, he was a charming, wondrous character with a personality as sharp as his throwing knives; but I was annoyed that in Inkdeath, he seemed to disappear completely, becoming nothing more than a dark figure in the distance, and less the prominent character he was in Inkspell. He barely featured at all in most chapters, other than to be relentlessly beaten and battered. And why even, would anyone in the story attempt to murder a character who seems to be weak in substance anyway? I got the impression that he was nothing more than a puppet figure, but with strings missing, or just a name on a page. I felt the same with Meggie too. In the first two books, she seemed to play the central role as a strong protagonist, similar to Lyra in "His Dark Materials" with that same mixture of vulnerability and strength, yet in this book it was her father, Mo, and his swinging sword that seemed to feature most.
I think most of my negative responses could be because I read Inkheart 4 years ago, but now I'm 16, and it did feel as if I was stepping into a children's book; this is probably why I criticised it so much when i was reading it because I think perhaps I've suddenly become to old for it. However, I do think it's a shame that either I have grown up too much to appreciate this book, or that somehow the original magic has been lost in the weaving of this final book. I'm more sad than annoyed that this book has happened. But to be honest, despite my age, or my opinions, I'd give anything for Cornelia Funke to rewrite this whole book again, take out the pointless subplots and the cliched, banal ending which I have read so many times before, and place more emphasis on already amazing existing characters rather than shoving in new ones. I'll give it a second chance if she does.
35 of 40 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
After reading Inkheart and Inkspell, I was really hoping for great things from Inkdeath. A climatic finish and a proper resolution to the great stories started in the previous books.
What I got however, was a tedious and badly written book. In fact, I struggled to finish it - if I hadn't got a policy of always finishing books I start, I probably would have put it down and stopped reading. There is a startling lack of plot throughout the majority of the book, just tedious meanderings, before Funke suddenly rushes into a climax and throws all the action into about 5% of the novel, leaving many subplots and ideas she started finished with sometimes only a sentence - if they are remembered at all. And even then, I'd been so turned off by the rest of the novel that I found I had trouble caring. There are weird touches to the plot as well, which would be better off in a different story - for example, one character starts turning into a bird and finds it hard to remember their human self, again another plot again crammed into those final pages. I just thought: "What?" It didn't fit with the story. It served no plot purpose.
Furthermore, what happened to the characters? Mo becomes the Bluejay for unexplained reasons, and Meggie morphs into a whiny, tragic, wet blanket who doesn't do much at all. Farid - what Funke did to Farid was criminal. Instead of just being a boy who has an adoration of Dustfinger which he could probably move past with a little maturity, Farid is penalised by Funke for this adoration and he becomes almost a bad character. Certainly his ending implies this. And the introduction of Doria - I have rarely read about a more 1D character than Doria. Truly terrible. The rest of the cast fared not much better, the villains with contradictory personalities, the 'good guys' becoming wooden and bland, and hurriedly resolved plotlines. Violante loves the Bluejay? Well, no problem - after drawing out this problem for the entirity of the book, let's solve it by writing one little sentence somewhere in the last chapter about how she might fall for someone else.
I'm also unsure about the ending. I'd have to think about that more, if I felt the book was worth my time. However, I think I owe it to Cornelia Funke, Inkheart and all its wonderful characters to ignore Inkdeath, and pretend the story stops with Inkspell. Because they didn't deserve what happened in Inkdeath.
What I got however, was a tedious and badly written book. In fact, I struggled to finish it - if I hadn't got a policy of always finishing books I start, I probably would have put it down and stopped reading. There is a startling lack of plot throughout the majority of the book, just tedious meanderings, before Funke suddenly rushes into a climax and throws all the action into about 5% of the novel, leaving many subplots and ideas she started finished with sometimes only a sentence - if they are remembered at all. And even then, I'd been so turned off by the rest of the novel that I found I had trouble caring. There are weird touches to the plot as well, which would be better off in a different story - for example, one character starts turning into a bird and finds it hard to remember their human self, again another plot again crammed into those final pages. I just thought: "What?" It didn't fit with the story. It served no plot purpose.
Furthermore, what happened to the characters? Mo becomes the Bluejay for unexplained reasons, and Meggie morphs into a whiny, tragic, wet blanket who doesn't do much at all. Farid - what Funke did to Farid was criminal. Instead of just being a boy who has an adoration of Dustfinger which he could probably move past with a little maturity, Farid is penalised by Funke for this adoration and he becomes almost a bad character. Certainly his ending implies this. And the introduction of Doria - I have rarely read about a more 1D character than Doria. Truly terrible. The rest of the cast fared not much better, the villains with contradictory personalities, the 'good guys' becoming wooden and bland, and hurriedly resolved plotlines. Violante loves the Bluejay? Well, no problem - after drawing out this problem for the entirity of the book, let's solve it by writing one little sentence somewhere in the last chapter about how she might fall for someone else.
I'm also unsure about the ending. I'd have to think about that more, if I felt the book was worth my time. However, I think I owe it to Cornelia Funke, Inkheart and all its wonderful characters to ignore Inkdeath, and pretend the story stops with Inkspell. Because they didn't deserve what happened in Inkdeath.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I really enjoyed Inkheart, and found myself becoming slightly obsessed with the series. Reading Inkspell, I thought that book was quite good too, although not as good as book 1. But, although I borrowed Inkdeath a few months ago from a friend, I still haven't anywhere near finished it. I will at some point, but I just can't get into it. Everything happens so slowly and the characters are suddenly so dull that I really can't be bothered to read on and find out what happens to them. Often when I read a book I find myself really thinking about how a character is feeling and thinking, 'I wish I could be that character,' but in Inkdeath I find that I don't really care about them, which is even worse because the first book started the series so well.
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Loved the ending! Fans of the first will love the last too!
I picked up Funke's trilogy as an adult, however, I think that I have received much enjoyment from them, and particularly the last book, is very dark and disturbing. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Louise Roberts
Inkdeath.
My daughter had read the first two books in the series over the holidays and was desperate to read the final book of the three.
She couldn't put it down until it was finished. Read more
She couldn't put it down until it was finished. Read more
Published 7 months ago by Penny the story reader
this is a great trilogy!
this whole trilogy is so immersive and magical...
I dont know how the author did it, this truely is a masterpiece.
I dont know how the author did it, this truely is a masterpiece.
Published 8 months ago by waterpro 576
Dustfinger must face his arch enemy... FINGERPOLISH! (Just kidding).
I've literally JUST finished this book, and thought of it as a worthy end to the INKHEART trilogy.
I thought it was very good, but for some reason i can't push it past that. Read more
I thought it was very good, but for some reason i can't push it past that. Read more
Published 8 months ago by Britishwotsit
The darkest and most dangerous book in the Trilogy.
I absolutely love this trilogy. For me the world created by Cornelia Funke is like Enid Blyton meets Arthur Rackham. Read more
Published 14 months ago by Jewel
Not a bad way to finish.
This book is most definitly a wonderfull read, but my favourite book in the trillogy is inkspell. This book is still jam packed with magic and excitement and is brilliantly... Read more
Published 17 months ago by L. R. Pritchett
jet
part of trilogy i expect it will be the next harry potter good story good price quick delivery
Published 23 months ago by elizabeth fry
The finale...
It is definitely better than the 2nd one. It is full of imagination...would recommend to read all three books.
Published 24 months ago by Faize
Unsure of the ending
This is a good book ti completes the Ink World trilogy. The story is good but not a patch on the second book ,Ink Spell. Read more
Published on 22 April 2010 by smcl
inkdeath
very good book but the film does cuts most of the book out there are three books and the film that was made only covered the first book and the last part of the last book. Read more
Published on 15 Jan 2010 by B. Mcmillan
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