If you liked Inkheart, you will like Inkspell. The characters are all back. But this time, instead of the Inkheart characters visiting our world, Moe, Maggie and the rest visit the world of Inkheart.
The book has all the same magic as its prequel, Inkheart. In the first volume of the trilogy, a few characters have the ability to "read" a character out of a book and into today's world. In this book Funke reverses the process, and throws her characters into the Inkworld. In this fantasy world, certain readers have the power to bring characters out of books-and send them back.
Meggie and Farid, apprentices to the fire-eater Dustfinger, follow him to the Inkworld, the land of the book-within-a-book, Inkheart, after he has been read back into its story by a mysterious man named Orpheus. Orpheus uses his powers to read Mortola and Basta, some of the villains of the first volume, into the story, along with Meggie's parents. Meggie and Farid, discover that the wonderful world they imagined is ruled with an iron fist by the cruel Adderhead and his gang of cruel servants. Meggie soon finds Fenoglio, the author of Inkheart, who is now living in his own creation. Meggie enlists the help of Fenoglio to help create a new future for her parents and herself, as palace intrigues, war, and the Silver Prince threaten.
This sequel is as engaging as the first book and will keep the readers awaiting the final part of the trilogy.