July 11th, 2005 at 12:07 am
The advance copy that I was most excited to nab at ALA was Cornelia Funke’s Inkspell (amazon
). In Inkheart Funke introduced the father and daughter team of Mo and Meggie, and the strange characters that come to life when Mo reads aloud from a book called Inkheart. In Inkspell, the characters that remain in Meggie’s world, Dustfinger and Farid, want to return to Inkheart. Mo is concerned about the time that Meggie spends thinking about the other world. Dustfinger decides to return, and Meggie and Farid attempt to follow him. Once they get to Inkworld they discover that the story has changed and become darker.
One thing that I enjoy about the Inkworld novels is the evil characters are pure EVIL! Even the “good” characters have serious flaws. Meggie makes some questionable decisions that made me wonder if she would be so quick to act if she didn’t have the comfort of knowing that the people she’s affecting were part of a book. Inkspell’s ending is more of a stopping point than a conclusion, so now I have to wait for the third book in the trilogy to come out to find out what happens to everybody.
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8:23 pm on November 28th, 2005 1
I read Inkheart, and I’m debating on Inkspell. I mainly want to find out about what happened to Basta and the Magpie. Does Inkspell answer these questions, or am I just grasping at straws here?
12:09 pm on November 29th, 2005 2
The story is more about Meggie, but it is good.
4:24 pm on November 29th, 2005 3
I loved Inkheart, it was so good. I can’t wait to read Inkspell!
11:14 pm on December 1st, 2005 4
I was so excited when Inkspell came out. I coudn’t even beleive it was finaly here. I didn’t even care how expensive it was. Then I read it and at the end cried sooooooooooooo much but I thought it was great anyway.
8:20 pm on December 7th, 2005 5
wow i mean, it’s a book, its good and allto read books but u cried?? wow ok get a life
8:21 pm on December 7th, 2005 6
u no i am JK!!!! haha so dont be offended
10:55 am on December 13th, 2005 7
Inkspell was so good is there a third book?
3:36 pm on December 17th, 2005 8
Yeah there’s a third book but its not gunna be out for a LONG time.
4:22 pm on December 27th, 2005 9
like how long … did you know that inkheart is gonna be made into a movie? its cool but still i dont like how dustfinger died it made me mad
12:40 pm on December 28th, 2005 10
I LOVED Inkheart–it’s one of my favorite books. I just finished Inkspell yesterday night (i stayed up until 2 AM) and I cried my eyes out!!! I’ve been searching for a place to just shout how i fee (thank god for the internet lol)l. I was so disappointed, though. I don’t wanna ruin it for anyone but, I can’t believe *** dies. I hope the 3rd book comes out before I rip my hair out. I was sad to find out that Meggie changed–in a way I sort of liked her in the last book. Meggie and Farid are meant to be!!! **sigh**lol. For a big that thick, you’d think a good ending would come out of it……..
1:29 pm on January 3rd, 2006 11
Does anyone know when the 3rd book comes out??
5:09 pm on January 3rd, 2006 12
No, I think the 3rd book is still being written and doesn’t have a release date yet, as far as I know.
10:49 pm on January 5th, 2006 13
I loved this book so much! I just finished reading it yesterday and still can’t put it down. The end was really unexpected and I can’t wait for the third book! Whenever it comes out…
7:43 pm on January 11th, 2006 14
man i hate dustfinger but i love him at the same time farid was a good character but that stupid idiot sootbird should have taken dustfingers place (like that would have ever happen, psh not in million years, but a girl can still hope cant she)and then they had to go make ***** immortal what idiots
12:12 pm on January 21st, 2006 15
THIS ISNT FAIR!!! NO BODY SHOULD DIE I FEEL SOOO BAD FOR DUSFINGER HE WAS ALWAYS THERE FOR MEGGIE AND MO (EVEN THUGH HE BETRAYED THEM….BUT HE WAS DESPRATE!!!) i threw the book on the wall when I was done cause of Dustfinger -_-
3:18 pm on January 22nd, 2006 16
I love both books. I can’t believe what happens to dustfinger. He was a great character. I wonder if meggie will bring him back somehow.
6:36 pm on January 25th, 2006 17
I have a feeling that Funke is going to write another book in that series. I think so because Mo said that it was only a matter of weeks before the Adderhead met his fate, and that Farid said “I’ll bring Dustfinger back. This story will have a happy ending. I swear.”
7:03 pm on January 28th, 2006 18
*gasp!* I loved Inkspell! I cannot wait for the next book to come out and the film! It’s my fave book at the mo, but I really didn’t like the ending. I mean, I liked it, but I didn’t like what happened. Poor **********!!!!!! And making the ********* immortal! Just soooooo not fair! I hope thingy comes back in the third one, cos if he didn’t that would just be bang out of order! The end was soooo unexpected, I so thought it was gonna be happy and cheerful! And then it was sad!!! I think that in the third one Meggie and Mo and Farid and Resa will bring back thingy (Let’s just call him Fred), and that Fred will teach Farid more stuff, and I hope evil Fenoglio dies. Well, actually I don’t cause that would get rid of the story (Bad idea Josie, bad idea). And I liked the idea of all the confused romance in the story. Dustfinger was all confused bout Resa and Roxane and like “Which one is my wife?” and Fenoglio wished Roxane wasn’t Dustfinger’s wife and he gets confused with it too. Then you have Mo and Resa, who have only just seen each other after about nine years, and Meggie doesn’t know what’s happened to her life either because of Farid. Confused? Yeah, me too. Oh, I cannot get over the ending. I thought (hoped) they was going to live happily ever after in the Inkworld, but ’cause I knew there was going to be a third one, I knew it wouldn’t turn out like that, but theres always a bit of hope isn’t there? Since reading the book I’ve become more like Meggie lol - I’ve been writing in a notebook - the paper isn’t there, only parchment. And I like reading more stuff. I always did, but more. And I should shut up now. Great book, loved it!
7:05 pm on January 28th, 2006 19
Oh, and I’m gonna force my mates to read it. I can’t believe the ending!!!!!!!! Arrrrrrrrrrrrgh!
9:12 pm on February 4th, 2006 20
I just finished reading Inkspell a few hours ago. It was soooo amazing! Inkheart wasn’t as good but it was still a fantastic book. Inkspell held so much more….feeling: fear, love, joy, sorrow…
and it was all in between the pages of a book. It was quite captivating.This book was sooo amazing that I just couldn’t put it down. I was so distraught to discover Dustfinger’s death. I didn’t particulary like him in the first book because he was really mean to Farid eventhough Farid was only there to protect him. But I did grow to like him more in Inkspell. He seems to be one of those poeple who you’re suspicious about when you first meet them… you know, a closed book… hard to read…
but then he showed more love for Farid and really changed the mixed thougts I had about him. He wondered where Farid was when he didn’t enter the Inkworld with him… and the exchange that happened when Farid died… that was soo sad, i coulda cried ( but i didn’t…lol :D). I really thought it cute that Meggie and Farid were hitting it off. But the fact that they kept getting separated… sad.
You see there was so much hatred and yet so much love in this book… it even caused death. Dustfinger really grew attached to Farid. It was quite touching when they were in that cave thing near the Adderhead’s Castle because while Roxane lay asleep with her head on his lap, someone said to Dustfinger as he watched Roxane sleep: “You would die for her wouldn’t you?” and Dustfinger replied: “Perhaps. Or Perhaps not.” and it all became clear when he did “the exchange” (as the so chapter is called). What bugged me alot was the way Roxane treated Farid: with such hostility! icy glnces and in the end there were extremely harsh words ( it would bring tears to one’s eyes)…
This book really got to me emotionally… it was a truly a moving story full of deep emotions… and the characters? They are almost so real… you make think that sounds weird, but you know it’s the truth. And anyone who says otherwise, well, you obviously haven’t read a book (or a good one anyways).
And that’s all I am WILLING to say on the topic (there’s so much to say, but i might as well re-write the book)
Cornelia Funke?… keep writing, you know what your doing…
*Rowena*
2:41 pm on March 6th, 2006 21
I read inkspell hte other day it was sooo great! But iI hate that dustfinger died, i hope he somehow is brought back in the 3rd book, becuase he just cant be dead, he’s to cool to just die
8:50 am on May 13th, 2006 22
lol…yea am i the only guy who likes this book lol…hmmm…judging by the pink website i guess so…anyways. This book is OFF DA CHAIN! Can’t wait to see how they bring **** back to life…
5:08 pm on May 25th, 2006 23
i loved the book inkspell and inkheart. i heard that inkdeath is coming out in fall 2006. i also heard they were making a movie
do you know anything about that?
5:10 pm on May 25th, 2006 24
hey which book do you like the best? inkheart
and inkspel. personally, inkspell.
9:14 pm on August 12th, 2006 25
I have read both inkheart and inkspell. I love Dustinger to bits and I was bawling my eyes out with the ending of inkspell. I hate meggie though. I also reckon shes stupid. meggie always does things to put her friends in danger and also doesn’t trust those who r innocent. I reckon she was stupid for loving farid. I personally would’ve been for dustfinger. I really hope ********** comes back in inkdeath.
great books mrs funke, but make sure to bring back ********** in the next book
1:50 am on August 25th, 2006 26
DUSTFINGER I LOVE YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!! EVEN IF U THINK NO BODY DOES, I DO AND ALWAYS WILL! R.I.P MY BELOVED FIRE EATER, LORD OF THE FIRE!
*begins sobbing uncontrollably*
6:07 am on January 13th, 2007 27
i loved inkspeel i couldent put it down. i cryed when dustfingers died. i heard the third book is called inkdawn not inkdeath she changed her mind and it is coming out spring 2008 long time to wate. i also heard that the film inkheart is coming out in 2008 too. cant wate for the new book
5:52 pm on April 6th, 2007 28
I love all of cornielia funkes books. I just can’t wait until the third book comes out.when does it come out anyway.I think Meggie and Farid are adorible together and that one scene just before the chapter ELINOR( LOOK IT UP IF YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT I’M TALKING ABOUT)IS SOOOOOOOOOO CUTE AND ROMANTIC.i DON’T THINK DUSTFINGER REALLY LOVES ROXANNE ANYMORE.NOW THAT HE HAS BEEN AWAY FROM HER FOR SO LONG HE SHOULD DEVORCE HER.ROXANNE SHOULD BE OUT OF THE STORY AT THE BEGINING OF THE NEXT BOOK.HAVE YOU NOTICED THAT MO (MORTIMER) IS ALWAYS THE HERO?????
11:18 am on April 13th, 2007 29
the 3rd book is called inkdeath and it’s coming out in 2008 I can’t wait
7:16 pm on May 30th, 2007 30
OMG, I have this book club for a school project so we decided to read Inkspell. We were only supposed to read 64 more pages tonight, but I finished the whole book! I know my teachers gonna be mad but I don’t care! Anyways, I loved it just like I love the Harry Potter series and Eragon. I ca’t wait for the 7th(HP) 3rd(Inkdeath) and 3rd(Eragon series) come out. Yay!
5:11 pm on July 9th, 2007 31
HEy does anyone know when Inkdeath is coming out?
I really really really hope Farid and Meggie dont get separated
11:08 pm on July 26th, 2007 32
I’m thinking in the third book Ms. Funke pretty much HAS to bring Dustfinger back.. I mean it is her book and she makes the final decision but she would lose many fans if he remained dead. Pretty much everyone loves Dustfinger even though (and mostly because) he is such a sketchy character just learning how to love someone so much that he would die for them.
I’ve heard about the change from the title Inkdeath to Inkdawn and currently back to Inkdeath again and I find this depressing. Doesn’t anyone else think Inkdeath is a depressing title? I personally think she should go with Inkdawn because even if some characters die a new day will always dawn for those who are left.
Also, as to the fact that she left off in the middle of things in the second book to lead up to the third, I don’t think the third book was the only reason she left off how she did. I’m guessing she will leave off at the end of the third book as well even though there won’t be a fourth just because of her quote “Perhaps there’s another, much larger story behind the printed one, a story that changes just as our own world does. And the letters on the page tell us only as much as we’d see peering through a keyhole. Perhaps the story in the book is just the lid on a pan: it always stays the same, but underneath there’s a whole world that goes on- developing and changing like our own world” (Inkheart, Funke 147). When she said this I took it to mean that the story doesn’t end with the end of the book, there will always be something new happening, a new adventure, even if it is not written about. So therefore I think that those of us who are expecting her to save Dustfinger and the Inkworld and wrap it up all nicely at the end will be surprised. After all, the story does not end when she quits writing it.
Overall I though both Inkheart and Inkspell were wonderful books and had a lot of meaningful quotes that related to real life as well as things in the books. Ms. Funke is a gifted writer and should be very proud of her characters who are definitely realistic and cause some readers to cry when bad things happen to them because of the emotions she so carefully portrays from each character.
Can’t wait for the movie, though I hope it turns out better than the movie of The Thief Lord, another of her books which was a really good book, but I found the movie a great letdown. Hopefully the same mistakes will not be made in the making of Inkheart the movie. (and no offense to those who did like the Thief Lord movie, its just my personal opinion that it was bad in comparison to the book, which unfortuneatly is usually the case..)
sorry for my massively long comment
~sky
3:29 pm on August 10th, 2007 33
MY FAVORITE PART OF INKSPELL IS THE CHAPTER AFTER The Mill I think Farid and Meggie are meant to be forever!!!!!I also hope the third book INKDAWN wich comes out in 2008 is so much better and Farid and Meggie get much closer.
(PS the chapter after the mill i read it like 20 times!!)
3:39 pm on August 10th, 2007 34
ITS INKDAWN NOT INKDEATH GOT IT!!!!!!!!NEXT PERSON TO SAY THAT ITS CALLED INKDEATH I”LL SLICE THEIR HEAD TO BITS AND MEGGIE IS SO NOT STUPID!!!!!!!!READ THE CHAPTER AFTER THE MILL AND YOU”LL SEE WHAT I MEAN!!!
(PS I wrote in cap locks because i am shout AT THE TOP OF MY LUNGS right now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
10:01 pm on September 25th, 2007 35
I think this book was sooooo good! I can’t wait for the next book to come out!!! I think Meggie and Farid are definatly meant to be together, and I really hope that Dustfinger comes back to life somehow in the next book, because he is way to good of a character to die. I was kinda mad at him though, when he betrayed Meggie and Mo, and when he was in love with Resa, because my god person, she’s a married woman!
Also, I was really mad at Roxanne, because Farid is one of my favorite characters, and she was just being plain MEAN to him! I was about to start yelling my head off at her!
Well, I have to go, bye!
7:57 pm on November 27th, 2007 36
Inkspell is one of my favorite books! And, the next one - It IS Inkdeath, this time- should come out either in 2008 spring or in September sometime… and, guess what?! I was looking it up, on one of Cornelia’s websites, and there was a question about Meggie and Farid staying together, and she replied that there would be another boy, and I was like, OMG!!!!! for the rest of the day. haha,
Alexis
1:13 pm on December 13th, 2007 37
omg can u get a better set of books !there fabulous !i cant wait for inkdeath ! i new it was goin to be called inkdeath because of the three words tht could kill the adderhead !heart spell and death !its goin to be so good
xxxxxxxxxxxxxXD
3:14 am on December 20th, 2007 38
Dustys gonna be brought back!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Has anyone seen the official trailer of the movie???It is sooooooooooo cool. Although most of the charies were’nt like I imagined them.
3:16 am on December 20th, 2007 39
Check the trailer out on http://www.inkheartmovie.com
8:54 am on December 27th, 2007 40
i wanted to know will their be a third book and if so when will it come out i have read the first two books so many times the covers are about to fall off! Cornelia Funke is my favorite author of all time!
8:55 am on December 27th, 2007 41
if you have any info email me at julia0597@yahoo.com
7:05 am on December 28th, 2007 42
Hey, Julia!
http://www.phpbb88.com/inkheartfanatic/
Check out this site, you will get a lot of info on the third book. Releasing on April 7th.
8:12 pm on January 22nd, 2008 43
ya i also was a huge fan of dustfinger and i just read that the movie comes out in january 2009 so you all know! and that inkdeath or inkdawn whichever it is comes out in spring this year. SO EXCITED.
8:41 pm on January 22nd, 2008 44
The third book is Inkdeath for sure. She considered changing it because the American publishers thought it was a little too grim. Can anyone tell me what “the chapter after The Mill” is called? Thanks.
9:54 pm on February 4th, 2008 45
The Book Inkspell inspierd me to read more then i havent stoped reading those book
10:00 pm on February 4th, 2008 46
OMG!! SORRY FOR SUCH A SHORT SENTANCE BUT I JUST FINISHED THE 3RD BOOK IT WAS AWESOME YOU ROCK AT WRITING CORNIELA LOVE YOUR BOOKS KEEP ON WRITING!!!!!
10:01 pm on February 4th, 2008 47
OMG THAT WAS AN AWSOME BOOOKK YOU HAD WITH INK SPELL
3:58 pm on February 16th, 2008 48
I’m thinking in the third book Ms. Funke pretty much HAS to bring Dustfinger back.. I mean it is her book and she makes the final decision but she would lose many fans if he remained dead. Pretty much everyone loves Dustfinger even though (and mostly because) he is such a sketchy character just learning how to love someone so much that he would die for them.
I’ve heard about the change from the title Inkdeath to Inkdawn and currently back to Inkdeath again and I find this depressing. Doesn’t anyone else think Inkdeath is a depressing title? I personally think she should go with Inkdawn because even if some characters die a new day will always dawn for those who are left.
Also, as to the fact that she left off in the middle of things in the second book to lead up to the third, I don’t think the third book was the only reason she left off how she did. I’m guessing she will leave off at the end of the third book as well even though there won’t be a fourth just because of her quote “Perhaps there’s another, much larger story behind the printed one, a story that changes just as our own world does. And the letters on the page tell us only as much as we’d see peering through a keyhole. Perhaps the story in the book is just the lid on a pan: it always stays the same, but underneath there’s a whole world that goes on- developing and changing like our own world” (Inkheart, Funke 147). When she said this I took it to mean that the story doesn’t end with the end of the book, there will always be something new happening, a new adventure, even if it is not written about. So therefore I think that those of us who are expecting her to save Dustfinger and the Inkworld and wrap it up all nicely at the end will be surprised. After all, the story does not end when she quits writing it.
Overall I though both Inkheart and Inkspell were wonderful books and had a lot of meaningful quotes that related to real life as well as things in the books. Ms. Funke is a gifted writer and should be very proud of her characters who are definitely realistic and cause some readers to cry when bad things happen to them because of the emotions she so carefully portrays from each character.
Can’t wait for the movie, though I hope it turns out better than the movie of The Thief Lord, another of her books which was a really good book, but I found the movie a great letdown. Hopefully the same mistakes will not be made in the making of Inkheart the movie. (and no offense to those who did like the Thief Lord movie, its just my personal opinion that it was bad in comparison to the book, which unfortuneatly is usually the case..)
sorry for my massively long comment
bobby apple
11:03 am on March 8th, 2008 49
i just finished InkSpell it was so cool! But i thought that InkHeart was better i got more into it if yall no what i meen ( BTW i’m not from Texas i just like sayin yall’! I WAS SOOOOOOOOO MAD WHEN DUSTFINGER DIED but i also cries i meen to give up his life for Farid :0!!! I read on some other site that Meggie falls in love with a different boy from Farid, does anyone know if its true coz if it is i’m gonna complain lol!
4:03 pm on March 9th, 2008 50
i am still reading inkspell but so far its really good!!!
8:13 am on March 21st, 2008 51
I just fifnished Inkspell. It’s So sad at the end I was crying my eyes out and stayed stunned for ages. He has to come back. ****** was my fave charater. Can’t wait till inkdeath comes out. I can’t believe thingy gave his life up for Farid, I don’t really like Farid.