Michelle's review
Inkheart (Book 1)
by Cornelia Funke
Michelle's review
Inkheart (Book 1) by Cornelia Funke
Michelle's review
rating:
Hoo boy did I love this novel. Firstly, it's a book about books and the people who love them. You really can't go wrong starting from there.
For a young adult novel, it has several interesting quirks. Maybe it's because I'm used to reading about American and British heroes and heroines in my YA novels, and this book is translated from the German, but it was a nice change to have a different setting ... from what I could tell, this book takes place mostly in Italy.
And it avoids many of the conventions of most YA novels (young person is an orphan or has at least one dead parent, any living parent has no idea what's going on with young person, and certainly that parent has no concept of whatever magical things are occurring). Although Meggie, the 12-year-old protagonist, lives with her father, and her mother is "gone," her father is a huge part of the story. He's not a vague presence who has to be gotten around ... he's integral to the plot. Without giving anything aw...more
For a young adult novel, it has several interesting quirks. Maybe it's because I'm used to reading about American and British heroes and heroines in my YA novels, and this book is translated from the German, but it was a nice change to have a different setting ... from what I could tell, this book takes place mostly in Italy.
And it avoids many of the conventions of most YA novels (young person is an orphan or has at least one dead parent, any living parent has no idea what's going on with young person, and certainly that parent has no concept of whatever magical things are occurring). Although Meggie, the 12-year-old protagonist, lives with her father, and her mother is "gone," her father is a huge part of the story. He's not a vague presence who has to be gotten around ... he's integral to the plot. Without giving anything aw...more
