I’m, uh…I’m afraid to actually start this one.

You know? You know where you’ve got a series and you just love the characters so much? And you’re deathly afraid of what’s going to happen to them if you keep reading?

If I don’t read the book, nothing bad can happen to you, Dustfinger!

The sequel to Cornelia Funke’s Inkheart, this book continues the tale of the “Inkworld”. Dustfinger finally gets his wish to return to Inkworld, but loses Farid. Having heard so much about the Inkworld, Meggie too begins to long for the world, and finds a way to let Farid and herself in.

Having lost one of their prey, Mortola and Basta go to Meggie’s Aunt Elinor’s home, seeking vengeance on Silvertongue for killing Capricorn. With the power of a man even more silver-tongued than Mo, the mysterious but juvenile Orpheus, they too enter the Inkworld.

Thus begins a complicated story set in the Inkworld, where things have gone very differently from the way its author Fenoglio intended. It’s up to Meggie’s silver voice and Fenoglio’s magic words to turn things around – but somehow things never go quite the way you plan.

Excellent sequel and I am already looking forward to the third and last book, Inkdeath.