Inkheart, a novel by Cornelia Funke

Meggie’s father, Mo, has an wonderful and sometimes terrible ability. When he reads aloud from books, he brings the characters to life--literally. Mo discovered his power when Maggie was just a baby. He read so lyrically from the the book Inkheart, that several of the book’s wicked characters ended up blinking and cursing on his cottage floor. Then Mo discovered something even worse--when he read Capricorn and his henchmen out of Inkheart, he accidentally read Meggie’s mother in.

Meggie, now a young lady, knows nothing of her father's bizarre and powerful talent, only that Mo still refuses to read to her. Capricorn, a being so evil he would "feed a bird to a cat on purpose, just to watch it being torn apart," has searched for Meggie's father for years, wanting to twist Mo's powerful talent to his own dark means. Finally, Capricorn realizes that the best way to lure Mo to his remote mountain hideaway is to use his beloved, oblivious daughter Meggie as bait!
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First book of Inkworld trilogy (Tintenwelt, Ger). The story is flowing slowly. Funke told in details what happened with the characters too much. But it’s the interesting part. I can imagine how Mo read the story out loud with good pronunciation and deep comprehension, how Basta and Black Jackets sit in front of Mo listening to him. It’s really like the characters jumped out of the book.

Unfortunately, the ending isn’t too good (because it’s still have two more books). Dustfinger had to go to find other reader to read him back to the book. Poor Dustfinger. The good thing is Farid and Gwin are with him so they can accompany Dustfinger.

I like Farid. At first, he is like coming from ancent isolated tribe. He doesn’t know car, doesn’t like wearing shoes, like learning to manipulate fire from Dustfinger. And then he helps Mo rescueing Meggie, Teresa and Elinor. He is such an interesting character. He has bad life inside the book but honest and pure boy in the real life. The opposite of Dustfinger, he doesn’t want to read back to the book. This world is too beautiful to be abandoned to him.