Critical Reception
- Publishers Weekly - In this spellbinding follow-up to Inkheart, Funke expertly mixes joy, pain, suspense and magic.
- Kirkus Reviews - Funke delivers more than enough action, romance, tragedy, villainy and emotion to keep readers turning the pages-and waiting for the sequel the cliffhanger ending promises.
- School Library Journal (Sharon Rawlins) - This 'story within a story' will delight not just fantasy fans, but all readers who like an exciting plot with larger-than-life characters.
- Booklist (Carolyn Phelan) - Like many other fantasies, this will appeal to a broad age range, though the writing is far less child-centered than it is, for example, in the Harry Potter series.
- Common Sense Media - Overlong but often exciting sequel, darker than first book.
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