Inkspell

By: Cornelia Funke

Narrated by: Brendan Fraser

Length: 18 hrs and 49 mins

Publisher's summary

Although a year has passed, not a day goes by without Meggie thinking of Inkheart, the book whose characters came to life and changed her life forever.

But for Dustfinger, the fire-eater brought into being from words, the need to return to the tale has become desperate. When he finds a crooked storyteller with the ability to read him back, Dustfinger leaves behind his young apprentice Farid and plunges into the medieval inkscape once more.

Distraught, Farid goes in search of Meggie, and before long, both are caught inside the book, too. There they meet Inkheart's author, Fenoglio, now living within his own story. But the tale is much changed, and threatening to evolve in ways none of them would ever have imagined. Will Meggie, Farid, and Fenoglio manage to write the wrongs of a charmed world? Or is their story on the brink of a very bad ending?

©2005 Cornelia Funke (P)2005 Random House, Inc., Listening Library, a division of Random House, Inc.

Critic reviews

• 2006 Book Sense Book of the Year, Children's Literature

"Readers who enjoyed Funke's Inkheart are in for a treat with this sequel." (Booklist)

Love the “Ink Heart” series

Absolutely LOVE Brendan Fraser reading this story! His voice and the way he reads the characters is absolutely perfect. I wish he read the whole series!

Brendan Fraser is AMAZING!

What made the experience of listening to Inkspell the most enjoyable?

I struggled through reading Inkheart, and had my doubts about listening to the sequel...but Brendan Fraser is the best reader I have ever listened to. He nails the character's voices and the little nuances of mood and energy. Even the cadence of his voice changes to have an amazing effect. I am just disappointed that he did not read all three books! I will, however, find every audio book he has done and buy it!

One of my all time favourite series!

Darker and grittier than the first in the series, it's hard to imagine that this is a middle grade book. Great, dark story and thorough world building and an abundance of distinct characters. I shed lots of tears with this book and there wasn't many feel good times; it a great dark fairy tale.

REAL GOOD!

At first I was disappointed to listen to a different narrator than the first book, Inkheart. But after the first couple chapters, i was hooked and fine with it. It's a very good story and easy to imagine it all.

Meh

I really enjoyed Brendan Fraser as a narrator though it was hard to get used to directly after Lynn Redgrave's voice. However I think his voice mostly got me through this book, it was definitely a slog and not as great as the first book. I just feel like for such a long book barely anything actually happened and I'm having a hard time deciding if I'm going to finish the trilogy or not.

Well read, an adventure, distinct characters.

The narrator was skilled, and each character was life like, individual, uniquely played out to make the story draw you in & keep you on the edge of your seat. I am next going to listen to the next book & hopefully this narrator is even half as good. I love this world & hate it too. Oh Dustfinger please be safe.....

after the first book

after the first book it took me a minute to come to terms with the new narrator but the story is so well written that i could not stop i wanted to know more
I feel that Fenolio could have done so much better for the story if only there was more communication
the story keeps going wrong because no one understands that in order to get it right the writer and the narrators have got to be in the same page
but anyway i digress i love the series so far and i am hoping it continues to be good in the next book so much that i can again disregard that there's YET another narrator for it and according to the reviews not a very good one

One of the most intriguing books ever

From the laughing princes castle to the way less wood the ink world is a truly immersive and awe inspiring place. It’s wrought with characters of all ages and personality’s. with characters you will either root for till the end of time or will hate with a righteous anger. This book is truly in short an ink spell.

Love Brendan Fraser’s narration!

Brendan Fraser’s calm, almost understated narration made this story so easy on the ears!
His amazing abilities to voice the different characters is nothing less than I would expect from such a talent.

Utterly engaging!

My favorite aspect of the story is that the characters remain true to themselves. The changes in accent’s from character to character aren’t as consistent as I’d have liked but once the story is flowing g, you barely notice it. Looking forward to the next installation:-)