Inkheart

by Cornelia Funke
Review by Jeffrey Cramm, grade 10

Inkheart is a novel about a bookbinder called Moe and his daughter Meggie.  One night Moe was reading to her aloud from Inkheart and somehow brought a villian named Capricorn out along with his lackey, Basta, and fire-eater, Dustfinger.  Moe's wife got put in the book in exchange.
Trying to find another copy of Inkheart they travel all over, while avoiding Capricorn.  Dustfinger wants to go back to his world so he finds Moe and begs him to return him to his world.  Moe doesn't know how though.  Capricorn is relentlessly hunting Moe so Moe tries to lose him by going to his sister's house.  Out of desperation, Dustfinger tells Capricorn.  He raids them and kidnaps Moe and breaks his promise with Dustfinger and burns the copy [of Inkheart] after he read out Gold and a boy by accident.  Dustfinger helps him escape; now they go to find the author of Inkheart and search out another copy to stop Capricorn.  And they find the rough copy.  In the end of that, Capricorn kidnaps Meggie.  They find out she has her father's gift and use her to read the Shadow out of a hidden copy of Inkheart.  Now Moe, Dustfinger and the rest of them go and try to save Meggie.  They get there in time to stop Capricorn and use the Shadow to kill him.  As Moe promises, he would read Dustfinger back, but Dustfinger can't wait and steals it and goes with the Boy, read out of the book, in search of someone who will do it then and now.
I would recommend it only if you like fantasy and adventure novels.