Book 32: Inkdeath

This book was pretty spectacular and really makes me love Cornelia Funke even more than I did before, but I feel let down. There was so much build up and then the closure isn't what you expect. It's not what you want. You spend several hundred pages in the deepest of dispairs only to have everything work out. It doesn't seem quite right. The rest of this is filled with spoilers just fyi.

The last hundred pages were absolutely amazing. There was so much tension and you kept on thinking things couldn't get any worse and they did. You could see the end. The violent, bloody end which could go either way. Of course the scales get tipped and everything works out and there isn't what you want.

Violante is in love with Mo. She has a soft spot for rouges (but lets be honest, who wouldn't? In books they're so glorified and she's a book worm just like us. Everything she knows in fiction.). Near the end it looked like Resa was going to die which left an opening not only for the loss of good (which the story really needs) but also for love to shine through in a different way.

Also, the whole love triangle with Maggie, Farid and Doria was terrible. It broke my heart into a billion pieces. From the beginning of the book it's always been Maggie and Farid. They were perfect for each other. But then Doria comes along and Maggie is infatuated with him and at the time it wasn't so bad. He was an alright guy. But when she choose Doria over Farid at the end my heart was with Farid. He's all alone now. Dustfinger has Roxane and Meggie has Doria. What does that leave Farid? Nothing. Him and Dustfinger were always my favourite characters so to see his spirit crushed like that killed me inside just a little bit.

Although I had some issues with the plot this book went above and beyond what I expected of it. I give it 9.5 glass men out of 10. It would have made a perfect ten if one of the love triangles worked out the way I thought they should or someone died. But you can't have everything in a childrens novel can you?  If you've read the other books in the series you defiantly have to read this one. It gives the story the closure that Inkspell doesn't. I really mean it when I say this book is amazing.