Book 31: Inkspell

I read this book a very long time ago, way back in grade 8 and while rereading it for this, my lovely blog, I discovered something. I didn't finish the book. Sometimes, when you get emotionally attached to a character and something bad happens to them you just want to give up and that's exactly what I did all those years ago. I was only 20 pages from the end. Also, the parts I did read I remembered wrong so rereading it was like reading it for the first time. 

Inkspell was far darker than Inkheart. In Inkheart there was some sort of hope that everything would turn out all right but Inkspell was just buckets of depression.  The story would be looking up for a chapter or two only to take a nose dive to the bitter end of the story and I fear that Inkdeath will be even worse. 

Dustfinger broke my heart. He is my favourite character in the books. I really appreciate the romance between Meggie and Farid. Fenoglio is awesome and the villains are so well written that they make me shake in my very stylish boots. Inkspell was very very well written and super easy to read and would have been done much sooner if I had the time.

I give Inkspell 8 fire elves out of 10. I read a lot of dark books but that doesn't mean I like them a lot. I find it hard to deal with all the dark all the time because I use books to escape from my own pathetic life and when they're depressing they don't do their job. Everyone should read the Inkheart trilogy. They're too good to pass up.

Just a note: I have exams soon so it might take me longer than normal to get my next post out...that being said I'm not very consistent...Wish me luck!

Book 30: Inkheart

So, the other day I finally had the money to buy my own paper back copy of Inkdeath. I haven't read it yet and it's been several years since I read Inkheart and Inkspell so I thought rereading them would be wise.

Halfway through the book I was finding it really hard to get through it. If you would recall they made a movie about it several years ago and I've watched it several times so the story felt too known. I knew what was coming and I knew what happened in the end and I really can't stand that measure of predictability.  But I digress.

Inkheart is truly one of the better fantasy trilogy's in existence today. Simply because it hasn't really been done as much. The written word is magic, a magic I don't possess, and Cornelia Funke does a wonderful job at bringing this magic that we all feel whenever we open up a book. I always find it amazing when an author creates a book inside there book. Just thinking about the amount of thought that must take is hard for me to comprehend because not only do you have to know the story that you're trying to create but you must also know the story that creates the one that you now write.

Inkheart is one of my favourite books (you can tell by looking at the spine. It's actually been broken unlike all the other ones that inhabit my shelves) and although I didn't enjoy the reread as much as I enjoyed the first time I opened the book I would still recommend it to anyone even if fantasy isn't really your thing. I would rate this book a 9 faeries out of 10 because it is really well written and very well translated, because as we all know Cornelia Funke is German...We all knew that right? Fun facts.

But in all seriousness, read this book, even if you've seen the movie and don't think you'll like the book. As always the book has surpassed the movie in all ways possible.