
When he finds a crooked storyteller named Orpheus, Orpheus obliges, but doesn't send his apprentice Farid back into the book as they arranged he then steals the book from the boy and hands it over to Basta, who still desires revenge for the death of his master, Capricorn.ĭustfinger, now in the Inkworld, regrets the fact that Farid didn't come back with him but didn't suspect that Orpheus intended it that way. He and Farid seek out several Silvertongues, all of whom fail to send him back. But Dustfinger is extremely desperate to return to the Inkworld.

When he finds a crooked storyteller with the magical ability to read him back, he sets in motion a dangerous reversal that sees the characters of Inkheart transported to a charmed Inkworld, about to be fought over by rival rebels and princes.īut can Meggie, Farid and Fenoglio ‘write’the wrongs of the Inkworld in time to avert disaster?Ī year has passed, and Meggie now lives in Elinor's house along with Darius, Mortimer, and Resa. It is the second book in the Inkheart trilogy.Īlthough a year has passed, not a day goes by without Meggie thinking of the extraordinary events of Inkheart, and the story whose characters strode out of the pages and changed her life forever.īut for Dustfinger, the fire-eater torn from his world of words, the need to return has become desperate. It was translated into English and released in October 2005 by Anthea Bell. Inkspell is a 2005 young adult novel by German author Cornelia Funke originally released in Germany under the title Tintenblut.

Carol Lawson (map, chapter head illustratons)Ĭornelia Funke (chapter-end illustrations)
