I felt like I still didn't know them very well at the end of the story. But maybe that's what entering Mirrorworld is supposed to be like! I do wish that we'd gotten more of a look inside the character's minds. I do have to say that at first, I was very confused by the story as it felt like we were thrown into it without any backstory or explanation. I also really enjoyed Jacob as a main character and I loved seeing him evolve throughout the story and sort of become a different kind of brother in the end. I really enjoyed the twists that Mirrorworld had to offer, and it was so easy to become hooked into the story because of it. Mirrorworld is essentially a mashup of all the fairytales and lore, but with its own twist and a new species. And let me start by saying that Mirrorworld captured me just as quickly and easily as anything that Cornelia Funke writes! If there's one book from my childhood that I will forever adore, it was Inkheart by Cornelia Funke. How far will he go to save Will and make things right?Īs soon as I saw that this story was being rewritten/republished, I knew I had to read it. But when his little brother follows him through and gets attacked, everything changes. He's become a renowned treasure hunter and made a life for himself on the other side. Despite this, I really enjoyed the story, and the characters had a good depth to them.įor years, Jacob has been escaping through his father's mirror into the world on the other side. I love the concept of magic, I just prefer magic with a little more reason. Magic and magical items conveniently solved problems as they appeared, with no apparent system to them, and with no explanation as to how the magic worked. Will is cursed by the Dark Fairy and Jacob must do everything in his power to protect his brother.įor a multi-dimensional tale, it is complex, a world of fantasy much darker than the fairytales I grew up on. He manages to keep his two lives seperate, until one day his younger brother Will follows him through the mirror and suddenly everything changes.

He spends months at a time in this world, becoming entranced with all its wonders. Jacob Reckless found access to the Mirrorworld using a mirror left behind in his fathers study when he left them, or disappeared. That being said, I put aside my love for Inkheart to be able to give Reckless an honest and unbiased review. I would like to start off this review by mentioning that I grew up reading Cornelia Funke, especially the Inkheart trilogy.

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