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Binding: Hardcover EAN: 9780439866286 ISBN: 0439866286 Label: The Chicken House Manufacturer: The Chicken House Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 656 Publication Date: October 07, 2008 Publisher: The Chicken House Reading Level: Ages 9-12 Release Date: September 26, 2008 Studio: The Chicken House Sales Rank: 151
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?
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Rating: - I Love Inkdeath
Inkdeath, Cornelia Funke's stunning ending to the Inkheart Trilogy, takes place in a magical world that has come to life from the pages of a book in which anything can happen. I really enjoyed this book for many reasons. I found it to be one of those books that is impossible to put down. It really draws you in and is full of cliffhangers. It is the story of people who originally lived in our world but have traveled to a magical place called the Inkworld after a special book was read aloud. At the time that this story takes place, the Adderhead, a villainous king, is immortal. This book is about the Bluejay, a robber who resembles Robin Hood, and his family and friends and their plight to take away the Adderhead's immortality. It is a marvelous book because of its excellent characters and plot.
The characters in Inkdeath are one of the aspects of the story that make it so great. There are quite a few characters in this book, and each one is very different. The characters draw you into the story because they seem so realistic. Although the protagonists are full of kindness and bravery, none of them are perfect. An example of one of these characters is Fenoglio, a writer who can control the Inkworld but who is always either exceedingly vain or convinced that he is a failure. Because the characters are so human, it is easy to relate to them. Another way that Cornelia Funke makes the characters seem more real is the way in which the story is told. Every chapter is told from a different character's point of view. This makes is easier to understand the characters and their decisions. The villains in this story are very disgusting and evil and many of them are characters that you love to hate. The following quote is an example of the way Cornelia Funke makes the Adderhead, one of these villains, seem so real and loathsome that readers will cringe everytime they read the Adderhead's name. The quote comes from the time in the story when Orpheus, another villain, first meets the Adderhead. "And of course Fenoglio's description had said nothing about that devastated face, the pale and puffy flesh, the swollen hands. Every step the Adderhead took seemed to hurt him. His eyes were bloodshot under their heavy lids. They watered even in the sparse candlelight, and the stench given off by his bloated body made Orpheus want desperately to cover his own mouth and nose." (Pgs. 375-376). The vivid way that the characters are descibed and the faults in all of the characters that make them seem human make Inkdeath an excellent book.
The plot of Inkdeath is another ... Read More
Rating: - great gift for kid
It came quickly. Good price. It was a great X- mas gift for my kid.
Rating: - 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 creatures. We enjoyed indulging in the Inkworld despite all of the author's wrong turns, and anyone who read the first two books may feel the same.
The first book was marvelous, enthralling. The second, even more consuming, we couldn't wait for reading time each night, though I had to omit large portions of Ms. Funke's gore from the reading to little ears (while also deleting myriad "good heavens" and other too-frequently repeated phrases, perhaps unfortunate artifacts of the translation from German).
With "Inkdeath," the characters' continual despair and sadness through the first one-half of the book became a running joke with my audience. It got to the point where every time they heard the words "despair," or "cry," my listeners laughed out loud. Yes, 300 pages were too many to establish that life sucks inside a dark story. Real people find ways to cope. Storybook people should too.
Ms. Funke's Inkworld departed the second volume, "Inkspell," with a fistful of teasers. Orpheus entered the Inkworld, Dustfinger departed, leaving devoted Farid desperate to conjure him back. The Adderhead was left immortal, an untenable situation, while Cosimo, his double and his father were all dead, Lombrica taken over by Argenta. Fenoglio and all the Folcharts were inside the Inkworld, save the ultimate book fanatic Elinor. Basta was dead, but Mortola was still at large.
Ms. Funke concealed from us, in "Inkspell," Mo's sabotage of the book of immortality and anticipation that the villain's demise was imminent. Why she withheld this key detail until "Inkdeath" is hard to understand, unless she conceived it in the interim. We had been left wondering why Mo would do such a towering wrong as to hand the story's arch villain endless life, with only a vague notion of undoing it someday. Otherwise, the act was selfish and inconsistent with his character.
"Inkspell" was a fascinating exploration of the idea of entering the very story that one is reading. One of the most intriguing elements ... Read More
Rating: - 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 of the first book, Inkheart!
Rating: - 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 she was in the process of writing it, and I'm sure that influenced the tone to some degree. The quality of writing is the same, though, magnificent as always.
I was disappointed in some characters, as almost all of them had changed to some degree, but in some the change made sense.
If you have been loyal to the trilogy definitely read this book, but come into it with small expectations and you'll be happier when you finish it.
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