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Tintenherz by cornelia funke6/24/2023 I felt about them as I used to feel about the pirates in Treasure Island - a book frequently mentioned in Inkheart - "Oh, they're only characters in a book!" This would, of course, be entirely appropriate if the rest of the characters seemed any more real. The trouble is that the villains are two-dimensional characters. Told in harsh, jolting sentences - which may be partly due to the translation from the original German - the novel relates how the villainous Basta and his horrible boss, Capricorn, appear, kidnap Mo, and are tracked to their hideout in a ruined Italian village. But this time I am not sure the promise is quite fulfilled, though the story is undeniably exciting. Cornelia Funke seems to have a gift for this: her previous, award-winning novel, The Thief Lord, opened up similarly towards its end. The story opens with Meggie discovering this through the arrival of the unhappy trickster-figure, Dustfinger.Īt this stage, you feel an enormous prospect opening up, promising marvels. Nine years back, Mo read aloud from Fenoglio's Inkheart and unintentionally fetched all the baddies into reality, causing Meggie's mother to disappear into the book. Unfortunately, a living being is always transferred into the book at the same time. The basic, bookish idea is that Meggie's father Mo (often called Silvertongue) can, by reading aloud, fetch characters from a book through into the real world.
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