I Can’t Wait For…The Color of Revenge by Cornelia Funke

Can’t-Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted over at Wishful Endings to spotlight and discuss the books we’re excited about but haven’t yet read. Most of the time they’re books that have yet to be released, but not always. It’s based on the Waiting on Wednesday meme, which was originally hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine. 

This week my Can’t-Wait-For Book is The Color of Revenge by Cornelia Funke!

The Colour of Revenge (Inkworld, #4) by Cornelia Funke
Genres: Fantasy
Published on: 15th October 2024
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Vengeance awaits in the follow up to the epic, award-winning, New York Times bestselling Inkheart trilogy by internationally acclaimed author Cornelia Funke.

Five years have passed since the events of Inkdeath. At last, peace reigns in Ombra where Meggie, Mo, Dustfinger and all the other residents lead a happy, carefree life. But it has been a different story for Orpheus, who after fleeing to the north, has spent his days living a meager and deprived existence fueled only by his thirst for revenge against Dustfinger and all those who betrayed him.

Now Orpheus is willing to use any means necessary to take revenge. Even the darkest spell the ink world has to offer.

When Dustfinger’s deepest fears come true, he’ll have to figure out whether the words still obey him. Or is he the one who should be afraid of the pictures this time…

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It is practically criminal that we won’t see The Color of Revenge with a cover in the style of the original English-language editions–

Are they not the most beautiful covers?!

–BUT STILL: Inkworld book four!!! IF YOU’RE NOT SHRIEKING YOU’RE WRONG!!!

If you don’t know this series you have my utmost sympathies and should read it at once it’s about Maggie, whose father is able to bring things and even people out of books if he reads aloud from them. Though Maggie doesn’t know it, she and her dad are in hiding from characters he accidentally read out of a very rare book years ago…and the story spirals out from there. Inkheart works as a standalone, but the second two books are amazing and I don’t know why anyone would want to skip them!

Hard-core fans have been aware for a while that Funke has been working on a fourth book – which surprised everyone, because the trilogy wrapped up beautifully! – and it was finally published in Funke’s native German at the end of last year. And the translation into English is already up for preorder, with release set for this October! That’s so much sooner than I dared hope for!!!

It gives me plenty of time to reread the earlier books, though – and if you’ve never read them, now’s a good time to start so you’re ready for October!

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