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Gr 5-9 This final volume in the trilogy returns readers to Inkworld and its wide cast of characters. Under the rule of the evil Adderhead, it is a bleak and dangerous place. General gloominess bogs down the pace initially, as several characters agonize, sometimes tiresomely, over past regrets and the dire uncertainty of the future. Meggie, despite her gift of magical reading, remains a disappointingly dull protagonist, but other characters are quite compelling. Her bookbinding father, for instance, emerges as a swashbuckling outlaw, an...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Chaos reigns in the Inkworld, a fantasy world read to life by bookbinder Mo in the first book of Funke's popular trilogy (Inkheart, rev. 1/04; Inkspell, rev. 1/06). While author Fenoglio has lost control of his creation, uninspired imitator Orpheus has bent it to his will. Mo becomes involved (too involved, his family fears) in playing the role of the "legendary robber" Bluejay, while his daughter Meggie is torn ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

An enormous cast of characters parades in and out of this final installment of the trilogy, halting the pacing and complicating the p...Log In or Sign Up to Read More