Customer Reviews:
 A sad, heavy book November 13, 2008
Inkdeath (Inkheart Trilogy) (Inkheart Trilogy) (Inkheart Trilogy)
Entirely agree with KT (Gloucestershire): this book was very disappointing. Cornelia Funke is a very good writer but this time she did a bad job. The book is dark and hopeless. At least out of respect for the reader who went through 700 pages or more (German edition), she could have imagined a more "rounded" end to the story. There is a lot of blood spilling, killing, but all this has no counterpart in loving relationships or in positive qualities. All the horrible parts are described in great detail, but there are very few words of hope or love. It is a dark book and I would definitely NOT recommend it.
 Disappointing. October 27, 2008
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
After reading Inkheart and Inkspell, I was really hoping for great things from Inkdeath. A climatic finish and a proper resolution to the great stories started in the previous books.
What I got however, was a tedious and badly written book. In fact, I struggled to finish it - if I hadn't got a policy of always finishing books I start, I probably would have put it down and stopped reading. There is a startling lack of plot throughout the majority of the book, just tedious meanderings, before Funke suddenly rushes into a climax and throws all the action into about 5% of the novel, leaving many subplots and ideas she started finished with sometimes only a sentence - if they are remembered at all. And even then, I'd been so turned off by the rest of the novel that I found I had trouble caring. There are weird touches to the plot as well, which would be better off in a different story - for example, one character starts turning into a bird and finds it hard to remember their human self, again another plot again crammed into those final pages. I just thought: "What?" It didn't fit with the story. It served no plot purpose.
Furthermore, what happened to the characters? Mo becomes the Bluejay for unexplained reasons, and Meggie morphs into a whiny, tragic, wet blanket who doesn't do much at all. Farid - what Funke did to Farid was criminal. Instead of just being a boy who has an adoration of Dustfinger which he could probably move past with a little maturity, Farid is penalised by Funke for this adoration and he becomes almost a bad character. Certainly his ending implies this. And the introduction of Doria - I have rarely read about a more 1D character than Doria. Truly terrible. The rest of the cast fared not much better, the villains with contradictory personalities, the 'good guys' becoming wooden and bland, and hurriedly resolved plotlines. Violante loves the Bluejay? Well, no problem - after drawing out this problem for the entirity of the book, let's solve it by writing one little sentence somewhere in the last chapter about how she might fall for someone else.
I'm also unsure about the ending. I'd have to think about that more, if I felt the book was worth my time. However, I think I owe it to Cornelia Funke, Inkheart and all its wonderful characters to ignore Inkdeath, and pretend the story stops with Inkspell. Because they didn't deserve what happened in Inkdeath.
 Well worth the wait! October 22, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I read both Inkheart and Inkspell, both enchanting books. I had to wait over a year for the release of Inkdeath and it was well worth the wait.
You can just imagin yourself there in Inkworld lost in the wayless woods. It has been written with so much detail you could actually be there while you read. It is full of action, happiness and sadness and wonderful creatures you would never have imagined. I just could not put it down.
Highly recommended!
100% worth it October 13, 2008
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I have to say, it was absolutely fantastic. I loved every moment of reading it, but I found the ending disappointing, not because it was poorly written but because the book was just so great I was sad it was the end.
Definetly buy it, you won't regret it.
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