Reviews for Inkheart (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition)

The average rating for Inkheart (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition) based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2017-11-07 00:00:00 Billy Burton Books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them. Magic, this book is pure unadulterated magic. Meggie and Mo (her father) are a pair. They're two peas in a pod, they're a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, they're ice cream and sprinkles. No matter what - they are together. Mo works as a book binder/restorer and Meggie is a full-time reader - she ready every single moment she's not in school. When a mysterious man from Mo's past shows up on their doorstep, he packs up all of their things and whisks Maggie away to to her Aunt Elinor's house. And, despite all their efforts, evil is circling ever closer to their little family and Maggie is at a complete loss at what to do. She's read countless stories of heroines ... but to actually become one? That will take pure bravery and nerves of steel... There is something inexplicable about the way Funke weaves magic into her novel. Even after all these years, as soon as I read this book, I check the garden for fairies and glassmen. There's something so heartwarming and true regarding the dynamic between Maggie and her father, Mo. Even the crankiness of Eleanor as she begrudgingly takes in Maggie is enough to set my eyes alight as I read, and reread this book. Perhaps, it is because (for the first time) characters in a book loved reading as much as I do When you open a book it's like going to the theater first you see the curtain then it is pulled aside and the show begins. Honestly, every quote in this book just speaks to me: Is there anything in the world better than words on the page? Highly, highly recommended for kids (and adults) of all ages! Audiobook Comments Read by Lynn Redgrave - and she did a rather good job. Nice characterization! YouTube | Blog | Instagram | Twitter | Facebook | Snapchat @miranda_reads

Review # 2 was written on 2008-05-21 00:00:00 Teresa Jatropulus I was very much looking forward to reading this, as it had very good word-of-mouth as a high-quality children's/YA fantasy that adults will also enjoy. And the premise, that characters can exist in the "real world" outside of books, or that real people can enter the world inside a book, is endlessly appealing. However, my local library is on the verge of opening a new wing with my overdue book fines on this, because I keep hanging onto it in the hope that eventually I will be able to finish reading it. I think it's just not going to happen. First of all, there is something very stilted and anachronistic in the writing, and I can't tell whether that's just Cornelia Funke, or a result of the translation work. Also, the book is simply too long. It takes 150 pages for anything to begin to happen, and that's much too long, even for an adult book. I blame J.K. Rowling for this kind of bloating. Finally, I'm extremely annoyed by people, whether real or fictional, who pat themselves on the back for loving books. People have loved books for as long as there have been books, and even before books, people loved storytelling and drama. You're not a special kind of intellect for loving books and wordplay. The people in Inkheart are paraded before us as people with an extra special super duper love of books that is so powerful that they can cause the boundary between books and reality to melt. But just carrying around favorite books in a little trunk and bragging you've loved books since you were a baby and could read before you could talk and so forth isn't particularly magical or distinctive or worthy of praise, and I got tired pretty quickly of Meggie and her father and aunt and their extreme reverence for books. Capping it off is Funke's annoying habit of using an epigram from other (mostly fantasy) books for each chapter. If she found those inspiring, fine, stick them on your bulletin board while writing. But they were yet more reason to jump out of the story, rather than having it propel along.