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    Fearless: A Mirrorworld Novel

    Written by Cornelia Funke

    Narrated by Elliot Hill

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    About this audiobook

    Jacob Reckless returns once again to the Mirrorworld--filled with profound characters, extraordinary creatures, and epic life-or-death treasure hunts that could only come from the mind of the master storyteller of our generation, Cornelia Funke.

    Jacob Reckless has only a few months left to live. He's tried everything to shake the Fairy curse that traded his life for his brother's--legends such as the All-Healing Apple, the Well of Eternal Youth, the blood of a northern Djinn. And yet hope after hope is extinguished. After months of fruitless searching, Jacob journeys through his father's mirror one final time to deliver the bad news to Fox.

    But there they hear of one last possibility--an item so legendary that not even Mirrorworlders believe it exists: a crossbow that can kill thousands, or heal one, when shot through the heart. But a Goyl treasure hunter is also searching for the prized crossbow. Jacob must find it first--and somehow convince Fox to do whatever it takes to save him.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateApr 2, 2013
    ISBN9780307583314
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    Fearless: A Mirrorworld Novel
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    Cornelia Funke

    Cornelia Funke (Dorsten, Alemania, 1958) estudió pedagogía e ilustración. Pronto empezó a trabajar como ilustradora de libros infantiles y a escribir para un público joven. Ha escrito más de cuarenta libros que han sido traducidos a más de treinta idiomas y varios guiones de televisión. Algunos de sus títulos han sido llevados al cine, el más reciente, Corazón de tinta, protagonizado por Brendan Fraser. En 2005 fue elegida por la revista Time como una de las cien personas más influyentes del mundo. Su obra ha sido galardonada con numerosos premios entre los que destacan: BookSense Book of the year Children’s Literature, EEUU(2006); El pizarrín de plata, Premio holandés para literatura infantil (2006); mejor libro del año 2005 en los Disney Adventures Book Awards por Sangre de Tinta, entre otros.

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    • 5/5
      I love this book - it is as enchanting and beautiful as the first, if not more so.Jacob Reckless was cursed by a fairy - and fairy's curses are more powerful than any cure he's been able to find. At last he hears of one possible hope - a crossbow that can kill or cure. He sets out on a race against death to find it, accompanied all the while by Fox, a loyal friend who could be something more. But the race turns out to not be only against death. Another treasure hunter, a Goyl by the name of Nerron, is also seeking the bow. One of the great things about this book is that none of the characters are fully good or evil. Nerron proves to be surprisingly sympathetic; he hunts for the bow out of a desire to prove himself rather than for greed or power. The Dark Fairy acts out of love. Fox is occasionally gripped by jealousy. And Jacob's reckless behavior lives up to his name.But what really amazes me about this book is the world building. The world is darkly enchanting. Old magic teams within it, but the world is being changed by an industrial revolution. Bits and pieces of fairy tales are woven in, and they remain true to their original nature; there is no Disney here. The magic in Fearless is dark, but can be used for good or evil. It also has a price.I recommend this book to anyone who loves world building, fairy tales, or just a wonderful story.
    • 4/5
      Good, but not comparable to the first installment, Reckless. Part of the problem, I think, is that Mirrorworld just isn't as innovative a concept as the Inkheart universe; so once we get our introduction to Mirrorworld in the first volume, it becomes a bit passe in this second installment. Another problem wit Fearless is that it tends toward too many cliffhangers as we pass from one mini-adventure to another.Still, 3½***, and I do want to get on to the concluding volume, The Golden Yarn.
    • 5/5
      Jacob Reckless is one of the best protagonists I've encountered in a long time. You really want him to survive the curse of the Dark Fairy and you are really rooting for he and Fox to finally proclaim their love for each other. I'm looking forward to seeing what happens next to Jacob Reckless and Fox in future Mirrorworld adventures.
    • 4/5
      I RECEIVED A DRC FROM THE PUBLISHER VIA EDELWEISS+. THANK YOU.My Review: I am convinced that this series is cruelly aimed at obsessive completist readers. The cliffhanger at the end of book one makes this book a MUST-READ NOW and, through the magic of Kindle, I was able to read the books back-to-back. I warn all who come after me: To sign up for this voyage into Mirrorworld is to commit to the whole cycle.I am in.What happens during the course of this book is that Jacob comes to understand something he'd never given much thought to: My love for you creates my responsibility for you creates a web of obligation that is endless...and as addictive as any narcotic. While we who have read the first book know what a price Jacob has paid, in fact what a price he paid after making a sacrifice that even he isn't quite aware of the dimensions of yet, we're probably not expecting the antagonist of this book.In fact, I guarantee we're unprepared for the existence of the antagonist of this book. And that's probably Author Funke's most clever sleeve-ace yet. It plays well.There are the accustomed delights of reading this series' world-building fillips. These are numerous, though enumerating them for you isn't really something worth doing in a review. There is a Fandom wiki, of course there is!, and I didn't look but am willing to bet there's fanfic on AO3. The reason is that Author Funke used every conceivable fairy-tale source to draw her world out from and has made it into a near-seamless whole. (Where there are seams that I can perceive, eg Goyls' method of transmission, it felt to me as though they were intentional not born of inattention to source material.)The problem I had wth this entry is how kinetic, nay frenetic, it is. We go from pillar to post and back again; Fox is with us, Nerron the treasure-hunting half-Goyl whose existence is new to this book is against us; we're never for a moment at rest, able to take stock, pause to reflect. It's exactly what Author Funke intends, and it's a valid narrative technique but in this reader it creates a sense of distance from the characters. I'm so deep in the world that I don't get to experience his progress through his (final?) days.Until I read this:"If you catch your own children in the circle...then you can use the years you take from them for yourself. You're just taking back the life you gave them in the first place. The more of it, the better."That was a gut-punch of a trap set for overeager treasure hunters, wasn't it?! And the sheer violence of the stakes set...if you're not a relative of the curse-setter, you're still going to die in the circle but it won't keep the curse-setter alive...could not be more urgent. Now that Jacob has found this evil place, he thinks he's trapped in the curse.Fox, his shifter gal-pal, isn't having that. As always, the woman's love saves the man from his stupidity and greed. Though let's be fair to Author Funke, this time Jacob's greed was simply the desire to live that we all suffer from. And since Fox very much wants Jacob still alive, she's hardly just going to watch as he dies from a curse she can stop from progressing...if she's willing to do something that's very, very hard to do and commit murder.Killing someone/thing in a struggle isn't murder. The intent to kill, the set purpose and the planning of the act...that's murder. Will she murder to save Jacob's life?You'll have to read the book.The ending is tremendously exciting.
    • 5/5
      After the events in Reckless, Jacob and Fox travel far and wide in the Mirrorworld to find a cure for the curse of the Dark Fairy that will kill Jacob before long, but to no avail. Then the long-lost tomb of the Witch Slayer is discovered, and it's rumoured that inside it lies the most deadliest crossbow ever built. Could this be the answer to Jacob and Fox's prayers? But they're not the only ones trying to find it ...Building on the events in the first volume, it is not absolutely essential to be familiar with the plot of Reckless, but the reader will get a lot more pleasure from Fearless if they understand the characters of the main participants and what motivates them. Whereas some of the plotting and characterisation in the previous volume were a little uneven, here both are flawless, and the hunt for the crossbow reads like a breathless Indiana Jones-style chase through dark fairy tales, where there is still plenty of scope for the characters to develop and mature, while also managing to make statements about courage, loyalty and the fear of mortality. I envy Cornelia Funke her seemingly boundless imagination and the ability to tame it into words, sweeping you up in them and transporting you, like Jacob, to a different world, and allowing you to care so much for her principal characters that I'm certain my heart beat faster in sympathy more than once. Tense, gripping and simply wonderful, the book weaves a spell all of its own and I'm sure that this will become a regular favourite I will turn to like a comfort blanket.
    • 4/5
      Jacob Reckless is back in the Mirrorworld and desperately searching for a way to save his own life. Like most of Funke's novels, the characters are complex and very human (even when they're not - human, that is). This time around, our beloved characters are racing to find a magical crossbow that kills the person it hits as well as all of their underlings, taking out entire armies with a single shot. There are times when it has a bit of an Indiana Jones feel, and others when it's like stepping straight into a fairy tale. I do so enjoy Funke's fantasy tales. They're appropriate for children, but adults can get so much out of them as well.
    • 5/5
      Diese und weitere Rezensionen findet ihr auf meinem Blog Anima Libri - Buchseele

      Meine Meinung zu diesem Buch? Endlich!

      Während ich mit dem ersten Reckless-Band, Steinernes Fleisch, stellenweise echt Probleme hatte, weil er einfach so gar nicht an die anderen Werke von Cornelia Funke heranreichen kann, hat mich Lebendige Schatten dann wieder voll und ganz überzeugt.

      Die Charaktere, die im ersten Band noch eher blass und farblos wirkten, sind nun in gewohnter Funke-Manier detailreich und faszinierend ausgearbeitet und endlich hatte ich das Gefühl, ich würde an ihrer Seite in die Geschichte eintauchen und konnte mit ihnen mitfiebern und mich mit ihnen identifizieren.

      Es gibt mehr Infos zu den Figuren, die man bereits aus dem ersten Band kennt, die Geschichte gewinnt endlich an Tiefe und Dimension, so werden auch endlich Lücken gefüllt, die in Band 1 durch den großen Zeitsprung zwischen Prolog und Haupthandlung entstanden. Und auch die Spiegelwelt wurde in diesem Band plötzlich viel greifbarer und realistischer.

      Gleichzeitig bindet Frau Funke in diesem Buch auch weniger bekannte Märchenvorlagen ein, was einerseits gut ist, da diese Einbindung im ersten Band teils sehr gezwungen gewirkt hat, was ich andererseits aber auch irgendwo schade fand. Dieser kleine „Nachteil“ wurde aber schnell dadurch ausgeglichen, dass Lebendige Schatten ansonsten einfach so viel runder und besser ist als Steinernes Fleisch.

      Der Schreibstil von Cornelia Funke ist wie gewohnt wundervoll und kommt nun auch endlich voll und ganz zur Geltung, nachdem die Autorin in diesem zweiten Band ihrer neuen Trilogie endlich wieder zu alter Größe findet. Von mir gibt es dafür volle fünf Punkte mit Sternchen und einen direkten Top-Ten-Wishlist-Eintrag für den nächsten Band.
    • 4/5
      As you may have noticed, I was not overly fond of the first book in this series - Reckless - and was thus somewhat reluctant about jumping into book#2. However, it was sitting there, in the library, and i had nothing else to read, so thought it might be worth a go.

      And it is a definite improvement.

      I'm not sure what happened to "Reckless", whether the writing was as choppy and poor as I remembered it or if I was just being extremely critical at the time, but perhaps Latsch has taken more care with the translation of this one and not done it so mechanically, but also managed to capture Funke's delightful and lyrical phrasing. There were some good quotes here, and I'd dig them out for you, if I had time.

      Overall, the plot flowed much more smoothly - a routine treasure hunt through the enticing fairy tale world beyond the mirror, but with a few rather disconcerting twists.

      Overall, an enjoyable read and I am glad I gave it the chance. Perhaps not as good as Inkheart, but a worthy read all the same.
    • 5/5
      Jacob Reckless returns to the world behind the mirror, where fairy tales aren't just stories but an alternate reality. In book 1 of this series Reckless, Jacob had saved his brother Will, but at a steep price, receiving a fairy curse that will slowly kill him. Jacob now must team up with the beautiful shape-shifter Fox to try and find a magic stronger than the Red Fairy's.

      Cornlia Funke has done it again! Her Mirrorworld is magical, slightly dark, and so amazingly rich that you will wish that there really was another world like this. This is a great series that will will satisfy readers who want a good adventure as well as anyone who wants to totally escape into a world filled with faires, princes, and some not so 'happily ever after' endings. Loved it!