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Two of the main components of a great story are found in character development and those small details which make the characters and their situations more realistic within the world to which they are confined. In the second installment of Cornelia Funke's trilogy, Inkspell, we find Mo and Meggie along with her mother Resa (poorly read back out of Inkheart in the last book and thus missing her voice), living peacefully in our world with no intention of further altering the Ink world found in Inkheart. Others, like Dustfinger and and his newly acquired apprentice Farid, who were read out of a book, have not stopped their pursuits of going back to their home world and seek others able to read them back in like Orpheus. Unknown to Dustfinger, Orpheus has allied himself with Basta and his men who have the singleminded purpose of avenging their leader Capricorn, so after Dustfinger is read back into Inkheart without Farid, Orpheus hands the book over to Basta. Soon everyone is read into Inkheart where Resa regains her voice and we find that most things have been changed due to the key figures missing from the book. New characters take on roles that were never meant for them and, in the process of Meggie trying to find a way back to our world, a new book will be bound with consequences more far-reaching than the author of Inkheart could have fathomed.
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While the first book focused more on the characters impact on this world, the second book focuses more on the impact in the written one and the consequences as that world adapts to missing key characters and the addition of those never meant to be in that world. As in the earlier book, this would still be considered an easy reader but there is more than one plot-line to follow and a good amount of new characters to keep up with. Again, the author does a masterful job of exploring variables and possibilities when changes are made to a story but be prepared for one main character to die as a result of the changes. While this book is still a great book for those who love books it has more of an emphasis on the power of the written word so I think writers would appreciate this book more than the first in that you have to keep up with the changes being made and their consequences. Unlike the last book where there was pretty much a stalemate between the ink world and the real one, this one ends with most of the power in the wrong hands while everyone is in inkworld so it will be interesting to see how everything is made right in the next book.
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