Meggie is a young girl who loves books and lives alone with her book-repairer father Mo. One night a strange fire-eating man named Dustfinger appears at their house and encourages Mo and Maggie to flee. Maggie winds up learning that Mo is capable of reading characters out of books and that one of the villains that he read out, a fiend named Capricorn, is seeking him to use him for his skills.
This is a great concept but a mediocre book. I attempted to read it a few years ago and got so bored by it that I stopped after a few chapters. I forced myself to read it again and was finally able to finish it. Once the story got going it got better, but it still remains a rather slow and ho-hum read.
I think she really missed a fantastic opportunity that would have made this book much greater. They should have written and published the actual version of Inkheart that Mo read from. How cool would that be? I was really more interested in that book as opposed to the one I was reading. I think that would have really made the characters mean more to me, for the most part I found most of them rather flat.
Reading Level: A
Story: 3
The story was okay, but not nearly as good as it could have been.
Characters: 3
The characters for the most part weren't very interesting. The only one I really liked was Dustfinger. The others were bland, even the villain Capricorn. He seemed much more interesting when they spoke about him from the book that he was read out of, but when you meet him he's just very... Meh.
Style: 4
The style worked for the story, but it might be too slow for most young readers.
Cover: 3
Nothing special here.
Presentation: 3
The pictures at the end of each chapter repeated every few chapters and didn't add anything to the book. Other than that it was very plain.
Epicness: 2
It fails to be very epic, I think tweaking the story and following my idea would have raised the epicness of the story.
Final Score: 3.0
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