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Metally.net Book Store - Inkdeath (Inkheart)
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List Price: $24.99
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Manufacturer: The Chicken House
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Binding: Hardcover
EAN: 9780439866286
ISBN: 0439866286
Label: The Chicken House
Manufacturer: The Chicken House
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 656
Publication Date: 2008-10-07
Publisher: The Chicken House
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Release Date: 2008-09-26
Studio: The Chicken House
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Summary: nice book
Comment: I ordered this book for my 12-year-old son. First, I must say that I use the regular delivery speed, and I received this book in four days, which was faster than I expected. My son loves this book so much. Right after he got this book, he started reading. He finished this book in two days.
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Summary: Funke Is Still Fantastic
Comment: The bestselling Inkheart trilogy continues, and ends, with Inkdeath. From the get-go I must tell you... there's no picking up this "stunning conclusion" without first reading Inkheart--and then Inkspell! Each fantasy builds upon the prior weaving an unforgettable tale of magical adventure.
Meggie's father, Mo, is a bookbinder. When he reads aloud, characters break free from the page leaving their world to enter ours. In the first volume, Mo reads from his favorite book, Inkheart, and several sinister characters appear in his living room. Just as unbelievably, Meggie's mother, Resa, disappears--into the book.
With one foot firmly planted in our world, the other finds itself fully in the Inkworld. In this conclusion, we see more of our favorite characters including little glass men, moss-women, pet martens, and white women of death. We also meet new, equally-fantastic individuals.
Unfortunately, backstory slows the beginning of this volume, Meggie's character takes a backseat, and this book seems darker, less edge-of-your-seat than the first two. Like the others there are a few words I would rather kids weren't exposed to.
But... I still give a hearty recommendation for this marvelous conclusion. Why?
I love Funke's poetic style, dazzling imagery, and timeless themes. And, of course, the book-loving undertone. Inspired, thought-provoking prose leads readers to wrestle with desire and passion. And good versus evil. Vivid characters beg to be loved, hated, or in some cases, a bit of both. An overarching message pervades: actions rather than words ultimately determine destiny. The words of others can not conquer our power to choose. Yes, I do love this book!
Billed for 9 to 12 year olds (I'd lean to the higher end) Inkdeath is a fantastic read. And I'm not talking fantastic for kids. This book is fantastic--period. Highly recommended.
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Summary: Loved It
Comment: This is an excellent ending to the trilogy. I can't wait for the movie!! The only problem I had was all three books are narrated by three different people. They all did wonderfully, but I really think Brendan Fraser did the best and it was really hard to transition from Brendan Fraser (Inkspell) to Allan Corduner(Inkdeath). I wish they would put out a set with Brendan Fraser reading all three books. It was really enchanting.
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Summary: A powerful statement of the power of reading, writing and storytelling to literally change the world
Comment: It's been five years since German author Cornelia Funke's novel INKHEART was first published in English. Since then, the absorbing fantasy, which focuses on characters who can travel in and out of worlds simply by reading books aloud, has captivated millions of fans and will even be made into a feature film in 2009. Now, the story that began with INKHEART and continued in INKSPELL comes full circle with INKDEATH.
The central character of the first two books was Meggie, a girl whose father, the bookbinder Mo, has the wonderful and dangerous ability to bring fictional characters to life when he reads aloud. Since the beginning of the series, Meggie and Mo have spent most of their time trying to get characters from the Inkworld back where they belong, while rescuing people from their world --- including Meggie's mother, Resa --- who have been drawn into the fictional one. Over the course of two rich, adventurous novels, Meggie and Mo have become intimately involved with the lives of dozens of others --- from their world and the Inkworld --- and have been drawn, sometimes against their will, into the increasingly ugly political machinations of the unstable Inkworld.
At the opening of INKDEATH, the evil Adderhead has taken control of the great city of Ombra and --- thanks to Mo's unwilling involvement --- has received the gift of eternal life. Mo, who has now gained notoriety as the robber Bluejay, is involved in nightly campaigns to protect Inkworld villagers from the Adderhead's terrorist marauders who roam the countryside. Meanwhile, Meggie pines for her friend (and possibly more) Farid, who has become a de facto slave to the criminal Orpheus, who uses his own ability to bring words to life to create (and then have Farid dig up) buried treasure all over the Inkworld. As for Farid, he lives in the ever-dwindling hope that Orpheus will somehow be able to bring Dustfinger (who sacrificed his own life to revive Farid's) back to life.
As one might be able to guess from the book's title, all does not end well for all the characters readers have come to care about during the series, and its themes are far more complex and mature than its predecessors. Not all is entirely bleak, however --- plenty of twists and turns, not to mention some compelling new characters, will keep audiences on the edge of their seats even as Funke gives them new thematic material to consider.
Funke herself comes to INKDEATH with a new and sober perspective. As she writes in a moving author's note, her husband of 26 years passed away shortly before the novel's 2007 publication in Germany. In the end, though, the Inkheart trilogy is not only an emotionally absorbing, thematically rich fantasy series. It's also a powerful statement of the power of reading, writing and storytelling to literally change the world.
--- Reviewed by Norah Piehl
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Summary: Amazing Series
Comment: I read this whole series very quickly. The story is imaginative and the reader can't wait to find out what happens next.
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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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