Review: Inkheart by Cornelia Funke

From the time Meggie was small, her father Mo taught her a love of books that probably cannot be surpassed by me or any of you fellow bookworms reading this site. Meggie was so in love with books, that the bindings were taken extra care of and she had her father Mo build her a special box to keep her favorites in. Mo and Meggie move quite a lot, mostly around Europe, Meggie has no idea why and Mo has no intention of telling her until he is forced to. Whenever they move or even go on a small trip she takes along her box of favorite books. I really loved the relationship that Funke created with her characters the father and daughter dynamic is amazing. Of course I can’t read it in the original German.

The book begins at night with rain falling. Meggie perfectly peaceful in her bed reading a favorite novel begins to hear strange noises. A stranger with a scarred face, she would later learn is a character from a book that her father read into her world. Since Meggie was small she always wondered what happened to her Mother and why Mo wouldn’t read a loud to her. With the appearance of this strange character with the scarred face (she would later learn his name is Dustfinger), Meggie finds out more about Mo and why he refuses to read to her than she ever wanted to know.

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