The book is, like its predecessor Inkspell, set in the Inkworld rather than in the contemporary like Inkheart. The Adderhead is virtually immortal, but sick, after the climax of the previous book, and he will stop at nothing to find the traitorous bookbinder-slash-robber Bluejay (who much resembles Robin Hood).

The Adderhead is out to get the Bluejay and Meggie, and the less-than-pleasant Orpheus is still trying to rewrite Fenoglio’s story out from under the author of the world, causing no end of trouble. There surely is plenty going on, and things come to an agreeable end.

Oh, and Dustfinger returns, more powerful than ever…

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“Stories never really end, even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories always go on. They don’t end on the last page, any more than they begin on the first page.” – Inkspell

Stories never end, as Cornelia Funke says…especially when there’s a sequel. The villain Capricorn may have been defeated in Inkheart, but the story’s just getting started. Fenoglio is lost in the world he created from ink and paper, and things aren’t going exactly as he intended. Inkworld is falling apart at the seems.

The state of Ombra is bad, as the leaders are either dead or losing the will to live. Meanwhile, The Adderhead, the tyrant living on the other side of the forest from Ombra, is stirring up trouble, slowly increasing his hold on Inkworld.

Eventually, Meggie, Farid, Dustfinger, Mo, and Theresa end up in Inkworld with Fenoglio, and all hell breaks loose, well, looser than it already had. In an effort to bring his story under control, Fenoglio starts writing, and Meggie reads his words aloud in an effort to try and influence the goings on. It works…to a point.

Mo is soon arrested for treason by the Adderhead, because he matches the description of the fictitious Bluejay, a Robin Hood-esque character in a series of songs by none other than Fenoglio, who had short sight enough to base the robber off of Mo. From there, Meggie and company have to save Mo from being hanged with a combination of Meggie and Fenoglio’s skills, as well as Dustfinger’s bag of tricks.

Inkspell is noticeably darker and more violent than the previous book, but overall I enjoyed it more. I found the storyline more interesting, and connected well to that of the prior book. It has a quicker pace than Inkheart, which was a little on the slow side at times. It’s a great book, and well worth the read.

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In Inkheart, Meggie and her father, Mo, are on the run from a villain named Capricorn, a violent and thoroughly unpleasant man from a place known as Inkworld, who was brought to our world by accident. Mo, a bookbinder by trade, has an interesting ability, which is more often than not a curse, that brought Capricorn here. Whenever he reads aloud from a book, someone or something from the book will be read into our world, and something from ours will replace it in the book.

When Meggie was an infant, he read aloud from a book titled “Inkheart,” and several of the book’s villainous characters appeared in his living room, and Meggie’s mother Theresa, or “Resa,” vanished into the book.

Several years later, in the present day, Meggie is now around twelve years old or so, and Capricorn is hunting Mo, or Silvertongue as he is referred to as by the Inkworld characters, in order to have Mo’s powers on his side.

I’ll try not to give too much more about the plot away, but suffice to say that things get unpleasent for the characters pretty quick, and they end up working together with Inkheart’s author Fenoglio, Meggie’s book-obsessed aunt Elinor, a fire-wielding character from Inkworld called Dustfinger, and a character from The Arabian Nights.

Inkheart was a great fantasy book set in the present day, something I don’t see too often, but enjoy once in awhile. The sequel, Inkspell, in my opinion, was even better, actually taking place in Inkworld, and having an even more interesting story. Get started on Inkheart; the third book in the trilogy is coming out in October, and an Inkheart movie is on the way.

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