{"id":11496,"date":"2011-02-24T15:03:15","date_gmt":"2011-02-24T20:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookdragon.si.edu\/?p=11496"},"modified":"2014-05-17T17:11:41","modified_gmt":"2014-05-17T21:11:41","slug":"reckless-by-cornelia-funke-and-lionel-wigram-translated-by-oliver-latsch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/reckless-by-cornelia-funke-and-lionel-wigram-translated-by-oliver-latsch\/","title":{"rendered":"Reckless by Cornelia Funke and Lionel Wigram, translated by Oliver Latsch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2011\/02\/Reckless.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-28347\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2011\/02\/reckless.jpg\" alt=\"Reckless\" width=\"128\" height=\"192\" \/><\/a>Two brothers, a girlfriend, and a part-time fox set up what will certainly be a multi-volume, another-world adventure from internationally bestselling <a href=\"http:\/\/www.corneliafunkefans.com\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Cornelia Funke<\/a>, creator of Inkworld, her last alternate universe series. While definitely filled with swash-buckling fun and heart-thumping adventure, <em>Reckless<\/em> aims at an older audience from Funke&#8217;s other titles: her hero Jacob Reckless ages from 12 to 24 in the first two chapters, not to mention the year of sexual enchantment (entrapment?) with a somewhat explicitly beguiling fairy from whom he must escape. That said, compared to what teenagers <em>could<\/em> be reading, this remains relatively tame.<\/p>\n<p>Jacob Reckless&#8217;s father has gone missing. At 12, Jacob discovers a magic mirror in his father&#8217;s off-limits office, and enters Mirrorworld, where incomparable experiences await to distract him, challenge him, strengthen him &#8230; and, most of all, detach him from the &#8216;real&#8217; world where his brokenhearted mother and timid brother live frightened lives. Jacob is his father&#8217;s son, fully deserving of his father&#8217;s name.<\/p>\n<p>Fast forward a dozen years, when Jacob is somewhat of a legend in Mirrorworld, accompanied by Fox who is part vixen, part young woman, but always Jacob&#8217;s shadow. Jacob&#8217;s younger, abandoned brother\u00a0Will discovers the magic portal and, with their mother now gone, tracks down the enigmatic, usually missing Jacob in Mirrorworld. Will&#8217;s girlfriend Clara manages to follow, just in time to see her beloved begin to morph from human to goyl: poisoned, Will&#8217;s human flesh will soon turn into smooth jade, making him an invincible man-monster devoid of all emotion and attachment.<\/p>\n<p>Jacob will go to any length to save his brother, even after his brother no longer wants to be saved. Amidst a brutal ongoing war between humans and goyls, Jacob must hunt down the Dark Fairy who originally created the curse; only she will be able to reverse it &#8230; but will she?<\/p>\n<p>As with\u00a0Funke&#8217;s\u00a0other multi-tiered, many-layered stories, <em>Reckless <\/em>also features a long\u00a0cast of characters \u2013\u00a0some cleverly recycled from familiar fairy tales;\u00a0their challenges are many, especially since the lines between right and wrong are often blurred. The pages undoubtedly fly by, driven by pure adrenaline. Funke fans certainly wouldn&#8217;t have it any other way!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Young Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2010<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two brothers, a girlfriend, and a part-time fox set up what will certainly be a multi-volume, another-world adventure from internationally bestselling Cornelia Funke, creator of Inkworld, her last alternate universe series. 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