Inkheart (Inkworld #1)

Reader reviewed by Megan

Inkheart is the first book in a trilogy about a girl named Meggie. She and her father move around alot because her father binds books. One day, her father is captured by an evil man named Capricorn, and she learns the truth that has been hidden from her since she was younger: her father can read characters out of books. What's worse, her mother was put into the book Inkeart in place of other characters! Meggie has to find the courage to change what will happen to her friends and family. An awesome book!

Reader reviewed by Issabella Inkwell

This book is amazing in every aspect: adventure, magic, and just everything. This book actually inspired me to write one of my own after having a three month writer's block. So, I highly reccomend it. It amazes me that someone can write a book so well about a book.

Reader reviewed by Mary

Have you ever felt as if a book is so good that you it feels real? Well, that's Meg's life, especially when she discovers the secret that her father, Mo has been hiding from her for years. He can read characters out of books. Characters like Basta and Capricorn whose main pastime isn't reading-it's killing. Mo's tried to bury his past. But now it's all coming back....


The book's intricate plot is superb and captivating. It will hold many a reader's interest. Meg is likeable and the supporting characters are believeable.

Reader reviewed by Luna

This book is great!
It is very well writen, sometimes I felt if I read the book aloud I could bring Meggie, Mo, and Dustfinger out of the book. I felt like I was a bystander watching the story pass in front of my eyes like a movie.
I could not put this book down once I started it, I kept on reading it until I was finished! When I need to read something I just pick up this book and read it! The binding is worn down I think I have a job for Mo!
You have to read it!

Reader reviewed by Hayat M. : age 12

INKHEART,BY CORNELIA FUNKE.

This is a book of gripping and breathtaking, unique possibilities to the world. It is a book suffering of intense love, betrayal, trust and evil. This book is fantasy. Once you step out of our world and into Cornelia Funke's mind you are trapped and bound by the enchanting magnificence of it's outstanding beauty, and once you begin you are captured til the last page is sweetly drunk and finished. The power to read, write and imagine is clearly and creativly sampled here. The art that this book is discovered with is uncoweringly brilliant and once read and graved in memory, it is another piece to last forever.
Hayat M.-age:12
Writer in training.

Reader reviewed by Jessica M.

I could not put this book down! It was excellently written. The story is about a girl named Meggie and her father Mo. Mo has the ability to read things out of books. He once read a book called Inkheart and read 3 characters out of the book, including a villian named Capricorn. Mo had read Meggie's mom into the story by accident. This only part of the story though. So please read this book; it is a must read.

Reader reviewed by Sunny

Maggie discovers something new about her family, her father. He has a great ability that is also a curse. He can read things, and people, out of stories! That leaves the pages open for many troublesome adventures!

Cornila Funke has written several books over the past years and all of them are fantastic. This one takes the page though! Inkheart drew me in. It is fantastic how Funke combines the mythical world of the book with reality. Bad guys never change and heros will always battle with the past but in this case they are mixed well with each other and create an awesome story that even continues in a second book! I am glad someone came up with this power for I would never have thought of reading someone out of a novel. If you could do it, who would you read aloud?

Reader reviewed by nicole spencer

I absolutely love this book it brings you to a whole new place. I would stop reading it to eat dinner or something, and I would constantly be wondering whats going to happen next. I have read alot of books and this book is right up there with my favorite reads. READ IT!!!!

Reader reviewed by christiana

this book is filled up to the binding in eximent. i won't let out any details of the story, but i can be shure you won't be disappointed by this heroic adventure. in a way itt also shows how the streanght of wemon is great by having a female hero. there are many twist and turns within this book but it is worth it to take time and read this book.

Reader reviewed by Daisy

At the begining it is very confusing, but just keep reading. There are a lot of things that don't make sence but that is because it is a fantasy. You have to use your imagination. Once you get so far in the book, everything just fits together like a puzzle. You just can't wait to read again because the book yells at you to come and read it. Once you get to the end you'll be disappointed that it is over. That's why I suggest that when you are finished you should read its sequel "Inkspell". This is one of the best books I have read in my whole life.