Esas preguntas se contestan a lo largo de la travesía de los personajes y se puede ver que, aunque parezca un worldbuilding sencillo, existe la intención de hacerlo crecer. The Adderhead decides, as celebration for his wife giving birth to a healthy son, that the prisoners will be released from his cells, but the Black Prince suspects that he instead plans to sell the prisoners into slavery. Indeed, the premise and many of the characters kept the tale hopping and I only occasionally compared it to other Young Adult novels.

While the permeability of the membrane between imagination and reality may form the base of the novel, Funke delivers more than enough action, romance, tragedy, villainy, and emotion to keep readers turning the pages- and waiitng for the sequel the cliffhanger promises. In this fantasy world, certain readers have the power to bring characters out of booksand send them back. Mortimer takes Firefox's sword, feeling a strange coldness within him; he believes his anger and sadness are changing him into a different person.

They assume that Mortimer is the mysterious gentleman-robber, the "Bluejay", a fictitious hero from a song created by Fenoglio's words. I know personally I won't even bother reading the third installment, for me it's too late to save it now and I have much better things on my bookshelf. Meggie tried desperately to find some other feeling in her heart, but there was nothing, not even curiosity about the world now surrounding her. When he finds a crooked storyteller with the magical ability to read him back into the story, Dustfinger leaves behind his young apprentice Farid and plunges back into the Inkworld of his past.

The other bright spot is Roxane, who alone among the dramatis personae is stoic, competent, and able to put the needs of others ahead of her own. She’s also rapidly sprouting from a scrawny little girl into a pretty young woman, and when Farid shows up he NOTICES.The setting was richly realized and felt infinite like a good faerieland should - even though this sort of faux-Italian renaissance faire kingdom was cliché back when Jo March was sending serials to the Weekly Volcano. Endlich erlebt man den bunten Mark mit Spielleuten in Ombra, taucht ein in den Weglosen Wald, der von magischen Geschöpfen bevölkert ist, riskiert einen Blick hinter die Festung des Speckfürsten und entdeckt die silbernen Türme der Nachtburg! Para evitar spoilers, sólo diré que varios personajes queridos vuelven al Mundo de Tinta (o van por primera vez…) a raíz de la aparición de villanos conocidos que sobrevivieron a los acontecimientos de Corazón de tinta y un nuevo lector-mago con unas habilidades impresionantes. Immer noch versucht er, die Ereignisse nach seinem Willen zu formen, als Schöpfer dieser Welt, doch auch er hat seine Grenzen, die der eitle alte Mann nur ungerne zugeben will.

Meggie doesn't feel right to interfere with the story so much but is soon convinced by Fenoglio as it will be a double of Cosimo, not Cosimo himself. Esto se compensa con Resa, Elinor, Violante y Roxana, que, a pesar de parecerme estáticas, tienen una vida interior muy interesante. Nur so viel: Meggie, Mo, Resa und ihre Freund*innen müssen sich in der Tintenwelt weit gefährlicheren Situationen stellen, als dies im ersten Band der Fall war, auch die verschiedenen Persönlichkeiten gewinnen mehr an Tiefe und Ambivalenz.Ya no son los “inocentes” que conocimos en el otro libro: creo que todos han perdido algo y se ven arrastrados en una historia que cambia segundo a segundo y no los deja en paz. Funke usa frases de la saga Harry Potter en los inicios de los capítulos (es decir, los epígrafes) así que esa conexión no me parece casual. Though some readers will simply enjoy the adventure story, other will be intrigued by Fenoglio's reflections on the impossibility of controlling what he has created. All should be well, but meanwhile in another part of Italy, Dustfinger has found a sinister Silver-tongue, using the prideful stage name of Orpheus, who reads him back into his story. Some of you may think that I waited too long between finishing this meandering doorstopper and reviewing it.