My Book Review on Inkheart by Cornelia Funke

I am reveiwing Inkheart by Cornelia Funke.Meggie, a twelve-year old book lover has spent her childhood with her father Mo, an expert earning his living traveling the countryside repairing and caring for books. A hidden past of trouble shows up outside of their windows one night in the form of a man named Dustfinger, a man who you soon find out, is not from this world. You see Mo has a hidden talent where, if he reads a story aloud, he can actually bring characters to life out of the book, Dustfinger being one of them, stolen unhappily from the world he had always known. Not only does this create problems for the displaced Dustfinger, a kindly fire-eater/juggler who misses the fairies and trolls he had once befriended, but in place of stealing one character from the book, something from Mo’s world is sucked in…his loving wife. To make things even worse, not only was Dustfinger brought to life, but also the villainous Capricorn, a man so evil his heart was said to be made of ink. Capricorn becomes obsessed with Mo’s power and chases him down to use it for evil not good, as is the villainous code of conduct. I really enjoyed this book and could not put it down. I am really looking forward to reading the sequel Inkspell.