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Inkdeath (Inkheart) | 
 enlarge | Author: Cornelia Funke
Publisher: The Chicken House
Category: Book
List Price: $24.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  23 reviews
Sales Rank: 48
Media: Hardcover
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 656
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 6 x 2.4
ISBN: 0439866286
EAN: 9780439866286
ASIN: 0439866286
Publication Date: October 7, 2008
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Product Description
The Adderhead--his immortality bound in a book by Meggie's father, Mo--has ordered his henchmen to plunder the villages. The peasants' only defense is a band of outlaws led by the Bluejay--Mo's fictitious double, whose identity he has reluctantly adopted. But the Book of Immortality is unraveling, and the Adderhead again fears the White Women of Death. To bring the renegade Bluejay back to repair the book, the Adderhead kidnaps all the children in the kingdom, dooming them to slavery in his silver mines unless Mo surrends. First Dustfinger, now Mo: Can anyone save this cursed story?
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 Amazing Series November 18, 2008
I read this whole series very quickly. The story is imaginative and the reader can't wait to find out what happens next.
 Indeath Audio November 16, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Absolutely love the Inkheart series by Cornelia Funke, and Inkdeath is the best one yet. I've read them all several times, but this is the first I've listened to in audio. I have to say I really did not care for the reader at all, but listened anyway. I liked the reader of the Potter books and the Tolkein books much better.
 Boring and an unsatisfying read November 15, 2008
I had great hopes for this book. When I heard that it had been released I could barely contain my excitement at finally being able to read this book. Now after reading it, I have to say that I was extremely disappointed and dissatisfied.
Inkheart is an amazing story; I loved how it was about the power of the written word and books in general. But in Inkdeath, all of the magic is gone! Meggie Folchart was the protagonist of Inkheart and so the natural assumption is that she is the main character of the whole series. Clearly, she's not or I wouldn't be mentioning it. In Inkspell other characters start to have larger roles, certain things start to revolve around them, and more chapters are told from their perspectives. Yet Meggie is still an integral part of the story. However, in Inkdeath, the heroes are other people, like Mo and Resa. Meggie does absolutely NOTHING!!!! The whole book is 660 pages of boring NOTHING! It was a really boring story and I really disliked how all (& I mean all) of the characters were portrayed. For one, Mo is entirely different. He actually doesn't want to leave the Inkworld and he acts irrationally all of the time. Farid becomes a jerk. Resa is annoying. Maggie is a weak, useless little side character who sits weepy on the sidelines. And other characters become annoying fools too.
Cornelia Funke takes too long to make a point in this story. The ending is predictable - most of the evil is vanquished! Yay! - but the story still doesn't end on a satisfying note. As I said before, it was boring. I can't get over it. I kept waiting for Meggie to do something, for example, write something herself independent of Fenoglio to affect change and save everybody. In the last eighth of the book I finally began to give up hope and it came crashing down on me that this book was disappointing. I mutinously wished that Cornelia had never written a sequel to the wonderful Inkheart, because even though I loved Inkspell, as a cliff-hanger, it was nothing without an awesome final book and Inkdeath was not it.
So, though I fervently recommend Inkheart to any bibliophile, Inkdeath gets 2 stars from me because it lacks anything really interesting. You needn't bother reading it. If you've read Inkheart and Inkspell already, don't go on to Inkdeath so that you can remember those books and those characters with fondness.
I loved this book November 4, 2008
I enjoyed the last book in this trilogy very much. Of course it didn't wrap things up and we will need to have another book to keep us up to date with the pretend world because we love the characters. The question is always looming in our mind about if they ever returned to the real world. This is the kind of book that you wish existed when you were ten years old. Oh well, better late than never.
My favorite Book November 3, 2008
Inkdeath by Cornella Funke is a fantasy book.
Inkdeath begins with Mo going to see Balbulas's work. He gets captured by Violante. Violante gives him a deal to write the three words into the white book. Meggie is worried about Mo and falls in love with Doria. Farid is working for Orpheus so Orpheus can write Dustfinger back.
Inkdeath is a very good book with tons of twists, great characters and an excellent ending. I recommend this book for ages 10 and up.
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