The Covers for the whole series are amazing. I was the first thing to attract me to it. It captures the feel of the books without giving anything away.
The Quotes at the beginning of each chapter pertain to the plot. I enjoyed studying the quotes and trying to guess what would happen next.
The Plot was brilliant: Mo, Maggie's father can read characters out of books! He accidentally reads a particularly evil one out and reads his own wife in! He spends years trying to get her back. Maggie discovers she has her father's gift and they both find themselves on an adventure that usually only happens in books.
What reader hasn't fantasized about meeting their favourite fictional characters?
The Descriptions, next to the plot, were my favourite part of the books. Cornelia Funke has a wonderful gift for description, some times I would re-read parts just because I loved the way she made words come alive.
The Characters were 3D, you really fall in love with their quirks and even though Dustfinger, the fire-dancer, can frustrate the reader, the story would not be the same without him.
I Disliked the swearing. Mild swearwords though they were, I was shocked to find them in a children's book.
The plot was wonderful but the story's pacing was not very good. In the first book Mo, Maggie and Dustfinger get captured and escape too many times. The book felt dis-jointed at some parts.
The Verdict: well, as I mentioned at the beginning of this post, Inkheart is my favourite book. So, I absolutely love the series!
Hmn...Before I never really got the 'feel' or 'interest' in it...but maybe I might just check it out now! :) Thanks for the review. It is kind of odd that items for younger teens and kids has a lot of swearing in it. And because of it, you walk by an eight year old or so who says two of the worst curse words imaginable in a sentence, and chuckles about it. O.o...just wrong.
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