Every avid reader has dreamed of being able to meet his favorite characters in the books that he’s read.  Mortimer Folchart (Mo) has always dreamed of being able to do the same.  One day, while reading aloud from one of his favorite books, he discovers that he is able to read characters out of the books and into the real world by doing so.  It would have been a magnificent discovery if it weren’t for two problems.  The first is that he makes the mistake of reading the villains out of the book along with the hero.  And the second is that when characters are read out of the book, someone else needs to go in, and so by reading these characters out of the story world, his wife is sucked into it.

Ten years later, the villains of the book he read are still running around the world creating chaos and his twelve-year-old daughter Maggie is beginning to demand answers.

Few people in the world have the ability to read characters out of books, and the villains’ demand for him to read more characters out of books has forced Mo to be continually on the run.  He’s going to have to eventually tell Maggie the truth about what he can do and what kind of trouble he’s in.  But it’s hard to do that as the villains are closing in.

This book is founded on an imaginative premise and is a rollicking good adventure, as well as just being a fun book in general for readers who have ever wished that they could do the same.  Told from the eyes of the character of Maggie, this book is largely a process of discovery for main character and reader alike as they wade deeper into what exactly happens when characters are read out of the story.

With great characters, a fun premise, and a very intricate and twisting plot, there are few good things this book doesn’t have.  And as the first book of an excellent trilogy, there’s more where this book came from.  Both a start of a great trilogy and a fun standalone book by itself, Inkheart is one of my favorites.  So it should be one of yours as well.

Content Advisory: The book contains some mild language.

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