![]() ![]() He’s a super tough older guy who’s joined the academy/covenant specifically so her can train the main character. She is, however, highly sought after by the male population and finds it easier to be friends with guys.Īiden is basically Demitri. Although Alex is similar to Rose, unfortunately, she doesn’t have the same wit. And that’s because I had, so like Maddie, I’ll break the similarities down for you:Īlex is exactly like Rose in the sense that she’s a ‘kick-ass’ girl who’s been out of her usual training for a while, is then captured and brought back to the ‘academy’ which is called the Covenant. Honestly, I felt like I’d read this book already. Is this author able to come up with something completely original? If you have a favourite book by her, then please recommend it! Especially if it’s unlike anything you’ve read before. In Half-Blood‘s case, it’s basically Vampire Academy with gods. ![]() ![]() Maddie read Obsidian earlier in the year and said that it was basically Twilight with aliens. ![]()
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(“I finally understand what the poets have written. ![]() ![]() On the hill where he pulled me from the dust, the angel said, "You will see many strange things. Yes, I have been given the gift of tongues, so I see nothing without knowing the word for it, but what good does that do? Did it help in Jerusalem to know that it was a Mercedes that terrified me and sent me diving into a Dumpster? Moreover, after Raziel pulled me out and ripped my fingernails back as I struggled to stay hidden, did it help to know that it was a Boeing 747 that made me cower in a ball trying to rock away my own tears and shut out the noise and fire? Am I a little child, afraid of its own shadow, or did I spend twenty-seven years at the side of the Son of God? ![]() ![]() ![]() The angel says I'm supposed to just sit down and write my story, forget about what I've seen in this world, but how am I to do that? In the last three days I have seen more people, more images, more wonders, than in all my thirty-three years of living, and the angel asks me to ignore them. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This trilogy is a landmark in children's literature, what Tolkein's Lord of the Rings trilogy is to the genre of fantasy writing. Now that the movie of Inkheart is about to open, I am sure sales of the books will surge, and well they should. Despite the length of these books, kids are buying them and, I think actually reading them. Since Inkheart was published in 2003 and released in paperback in 2005, I have been constantly re-stocking the shelves with it whenever I work. As Dwight Garner noted in the New York Times in January of 2005, Funke's Inkworld Trilogy books are always in the top five of the Children's Series bestseller list, despite the fact that books in translation by living writers rarely make it onto this list. Funke is hugely popular in Germany and acquired an English publisher when a bilingual child sent a letter to Barry Cunningham at The Chicken House, an imprint of Scholastic, asking why her favorite German author was not available to read in English. Her illustrations appear at every the chapter start and she has also written and illustrated several picture books for children. Funke was a social worker, educator and eventually children's book illustrator before she began writing her own books. Funke is a native German now living in Los Angeles and all three books in the trilogy are translated by Anthea Bell. Inkheart, Inkspell and Inkdeath by Cornelia Funke comprise the Inkworld Trilogy, which Funke (pronounced FOONK-eh and also the German word for "spark") completed in October of 2008. ![]() ![]() ![]() It is an extraordinary piece of work, a perfect balancing act with terror on one side and love on the other. 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