This is the first of three books in the "Inkworld" series, but the only one I had time to read. It details the interesting story of a girl, Meggie, and her father in a world where she has inherited her father's ability to actually read characters out of the books that they read aloud. He has read various innocuous characters--like white rabbits and garden gnomes-- from several books, but from one book, Inkheart--a book about a fantasy world similar to the middle ages of ours--he was read a cadre of unsavory folks who cherish desires for world domination through Machiavellian means. The twosome, along with one of the characters, Dustfinger, and the aunt of Maggie's long-missing mother must locate the book's author in order to rewrite the story before it's too late!
This book is the first of a trilogy, which includes "Inkspell" and "Inkdeath," which I have not read, but intended to.
Merit: Wonderful style and dialog. Empathetic characters and situations. The author is quite the character.
Share: Book club to read as series.
Appeal: Fantasy world close enough to our own to be exciting. Characters we care about.
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