FAVORITE: BOOKS: Ink heart

INK HEART


This book, was one of the few that was suggested by a friend of mine :)
And thanks to another friend he so kindly gave me a book :0 So I suppose I owe him

The series of Inkheart portrays a story about a girl name Maggie Folchart. She and her Father Mortimer, (she calls him mo) Live all alone after the loss of her mother which was still very unclear on how she "died".

Her life starts to change when the past of his Father's abilities begin to haunt him and appear at their doorstep. The appearance of "Dustfinger" that night was the beginning of it all. The stranger was let into their home, Meggie eavesdrops and thinks that Dustfinger/the stranger is warning Mo about something.

The next morning, Meggie is woken up by her father. He tells her that they are going to see her aunt Elinor. After breakfast, Meggie goes into her room to pack a few books to bring with her and discovers Inkheart, the book in brown paper binding, that her father refused to talk about. When Meggie grows irritated that her father insisted on keeping her in the dark, Dustfinger describes Capricorn as an evil sadist.

It turns out that Capricorn is after the last copy of Inkheart which is in possession of her Father. Along their stay at Elinor's her Father get's kidnapped and taken away to Capricorn's place. On her pursuit to rescue him, she learns of the magical abilities her father has. Which is that he can read things out of a book he reads. However, he does not have control over what goes in or out. One night, he reads a book called Inkheart to his wife, Resa. Mo accidentally reads Resa into Inkheart and reads characters out of Inkheart (Capricorn, Basta, Dustfinger).

Now that they have escaped, Elinor tracks down the author of Inkheart (Fenoglio) for Mo, who wants to see if he has any more copies of it. However, Fenoglio doesn't have a copy, his only copy was stolen. He is very interested to hear about Dustfinger, and says that he killed him off in the book . Meggie is horrified and so is Dustfinger.

Elinor returns home to her house only to find no books on their shelves; they are all trampled on the floor. She finds no books in her library at all, only a stone-dead rooster hanging from the ceiling: Capricorn's mark. She looks out of the single open window and finds a pile of ashes, the humble remains of her most prized books. She falls to her knees and weeps.

Meanwhile, Mo goes to the airport to pick Elinor up after she called him and told him the news. Meanwhile, Meggie and Fenoglio are accidentally betrayed by Pippo (Fenoglio's eldest grandson) and captured by Basta and Flatnose. As prisoner, Meggie discovers that she has the gift of reading characters out of books. Basta finds out when he sees Tinker bell and Capricorn decides to make her read out his "pet", The Shadow. Mo, Elinor, Farid and Dustfinger plan on saving Meggie. Meggie meanwhile finds a mute maid of Mortola's called Resa who she believes is her mother, apparently read out by Darius. With the help of Fenoglio's writing, Meggie reads out the Shadow and makes him kill Capricorn and most of his men, excluding Basta. However, unfortunately because of the exchanging rule, Fenoglio is read into Inkheart in place of the Shadow. Basta and Mortola escape.