Honors Book Report

Funke, Cornelia. Inkspell. Scholastic, Inc. New York, NY. 2005.

I chose to read Inkspell for three reasons. First, I have read Inkheart, to which Inkspell is the sequel, and it is coming out as a movie! Also, one of my friends, who is a really big bookworm said I should read it. It is a 635 page fantasy book that revolves around the ability of the main character, Meggie, a few others in the story to read characters off the pages of books and into being. The story takes place in two worlds, ours and the Inkworld, but it is not clear where in our world, or what the time period is. (I would guess that it is current.)

Where as Inkheart takes place in our world, the characters in Inkspell dive into the Inkworld, inside the pages of Inkheart, a book written by talented author, Fenoglio. When Meggie's mother, Resa, was rescued from Inkworld in Inkheart, Meggie began asking her everything about the world inside Inkheart. Her obsession became so great that when Farid, a boy out of Tales of the Arabian Nights, asks her to read him into Inkworld to follow Dustfinger, a fire-eater from Inkworld and a hero in Inkheart, she agrees to read herself there too, something no one had accomplished before. What they find, however, is a world on the verge of being taken over by the villan of the story.