Reckless: The Petrified Flesh
core novel 2010 Reckless
Record
| First published | 2010 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  DE |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.75 (23,282 ratings, collected 2026-08-30) |
| Page count | 394 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9781782691242 |
| Internal chronology | 1 |
Synopsis
Reckless: The Petrified Flesh is a young-adult fantasy novel by Cornelia Funke, inspired by Brothers Grimm tales. Twelve years after his brother Jacob first discovered a portal into the magical Mirrorworld through an old mirror in their father's study, and vanished into it for stretches at a time, young Will follows him through the mirror himself, against Jacob's wishes. Almost immediately Will is attacked by a Goyl, a stone-skinned humanoid warrior race native to the Mirrorworld, and the wound begins slowly turning his own skin to stone. With his younger brother's transformation spreading and no ordinary cure available, Jacob is forced to draw on everything he has learned in his years of secret exploration of the Mirrorworld to find a way to save him before the stone reaches Will's heart.
Where it sits
- Universe: Reckless
- Series: Mirrorworld core; position 1 of 4 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Cornelia Funke
Notes
- From the series record (Mirrorworld): A dark, fairy-tale-inflected saga about two brothers who can cross into a grim mirror-world of living fairy tales; a planned fifth volume has not yet been published. First published in German (Cecilie Dressler Verlag) as Steinernes Fleisch (2010); the English translation followed the same year.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series Mirrorworld: position 1 of 4: next Living Shadows (2012)
Sources
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MirrorWorld
- https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reckless._Steinernes_Fleisch
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reckless_I:_The_Petrified_Flesh
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