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A review by onetrooluff
Inkdeath by Cornelia Funke
2.0
Well, a couple years after reading the other two, I finally got around to finishing this trilogy. The book is so enormous (almost 700 pages) that it was just.... really daunting.
Now, having slogged through it, I guess I'm just glad it's over.
My biggest problem with this book is that I am not very fond of the majority of the characters. I enjoy Dustfinger, and Elinor and Darius... but Meggie, Mo and Resa have way too many relationship issues for me to read about them and actually enjoy it. Mo spends this whole book on a total personality-change bender, which gets constantly blamed on Fenoglio and his words. Meggie can't seem to get along with her mother for more than five minutes, which you'd think she'd make more of an effort to do since she knows just what it is like to not have her mother around. And Resa has a serious, serious case of I-won't-do-what-anyone-tells-me syndrome.
I was slightly happy with how some of the storylines wrapped up because certain fire-wielding teenagers were being giant jerks... but I just didn't CARE about the ending. I also agree with my best friend (who got me started on this series) that some of the characters seemed to have a total personality 180 in this book, and it just didn't feel right. They also completely change their minds about their ultimate goals, and that didn't really feel right either.
I think my problem is this: These people really do love books and stories more than I do. I lovvvvvvvvvvvvvvvve to read, and there are certain stories that I simply adore, but I am having a really hard time thinking of a single one I would actually wish myself into, knowing that it would pull me out of my actual life. Most of all, I wouldn't want to actually go live in a story as consistently dangerous as Inkheart! The constant peril... I'd be done with it in a week or so.
I guess if you reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeally love danger, power, peril and playing the hero, Inkheart is the book/world for you.
Now, having slogged through it, I guess I'm just glad it's over.
My biggest problem with this book is that I am not very fond of the majority of the characters. I enjoy Dustfinger, and Elinor and Darius... but Meggie, Mo and Resa have way too many relationship issues for me to read about them and actually enjoy it. Mo spends this whole book on a total personality-change bender, which gets constantly blamed on Fenoglio and his words. Meggie can't seem to get along with her mother for more than five minutes, which you'd think she'd make more of an effort to do since she knows just what it is like to not have her mother around. And Resa has a serious, serious case of I-won't-do-what-anyone-tells-me syndrome.
I was slightly happy with how some of the storylines wrapped up because certain fire-wielding teenagers were being giant jerks... but I just didn't CARE about the ending. I also agree with my best friend (who got me started on this series) that some of the characters seemed to have a total personality 180 in this book, and it just didn't feel right. They also completely change their minds about their ultimate goals, and that didn't really feel right either.
I think my problem is this: These people really do love books and stories more than I do. I lovvvvvvvvvvvvvvvve to read, and there are certain stories that I simply adore, but I am having a really hard time thinking of a single one I would actually wish myself into, knowing that it would pull me out of my actual life. Most of all, I wouldn't want to actually go live in a story as consistently dangerous as Inkheart! The constant peril... I'd be done with it in a week or so.
I guess if you reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeally love danger, power, peril and playing the hero, Inkheart is the book/world for you.