Hardcover, 635 pages
English language
Published Aug. 15, 2005 by Chicken House, Scholastic.
When Dustfinger finds a crooked storyteller who can read him back to Inkscape, he leaves his apprentice Farid behind. Farid seeks out Meggie and the two follow him back into the enchanted book. Although a year has passed, not a day goes by without Meggie thinking of Inkheart, the book whose characters became real. But for Dustfinger, the fire-eater brought into being from words, the need to return to the tale has become desperate. When he finds a crooked storyteller with the ability to read him back, Dustfinger leaves behind his young apprentice Farid and plunges into the medieval world of his past. Distraught, Farid goes in search of Meggie, and before long, both are caught inside the book, too. But the story is threatening to evolve in ways neither of them could ever have imagined.
This story does not let up on the twists and turns in all the right ways. The first was amazing but this one was a delight of a follow up. So ready to eventually add its sequel to the pile of completes for the year after a break to other books.
This story does not let up on the twists and turns in all the right ways. The first was amazing but this one was a delight of a follow up. So ready to eventually add its sequel to the pile of completes for the year after a break to other books.
I feel like many of my qualms about Inkheart have been resolved in Inkspell. The pacing feels better (even if it still took a while to read), and the tension of the plot built more steadily, with fewer interruptions.
