Reckless. Lively shadows

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Reckless. Living Shades is a fantasy novel by Cornelia Funke and Lionel Wigram, which was published on September 6, 2012. After the first volume Reckless. Steinernes Fleisch , this book is the second in a book series, each of which aims to take up the fairytale tradition of a different country. In this part, French and English fairy tales are part of the story.

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Jacob Reckless managed to save his brother Will. His transformation into the Jadegoyl was reversed and he and his girlfriend Clara were able to return unscathed to the world in front of the mirror. But Jacob has drawn a fairy curse on himself because he pronounced the name of the dark fairy: The moth branded on his chest will detach itself from him, letter by letter, and fly back to its mistress. Then Jacob will die. He still has a year and the first rescue attempts have failed.

As a final alternative, Jacob must find a Witch King's crossbow. Because if it is shot down out of love, the life of the victim is preserved. However, the Goyl Nerron is also looking for the crossbow, which is a decisive combat instrument, because if it is fired at a military leader, he and his entire army die at the same time. If found by the wrong person, it can destroy the world behind the mirror. So it's about more than just Jacob's life.

Fuchs fights with Jacob, a shapeshifter whom he saved from a fox trap as a boy. Both feel attracted to and responsible for each other, but Fuchs is also in danger.

In order to get their possession of the crossbow, they must find the head, a hand and the heart of the corpse laid to rest in the tomb of the Witch King. As a clue, the Goyl, who has to travel with the son of the crooked king, his bodyguard, a water sprite, and the court tutor, and Jacob and Fuchs only have a riddle engraved in the crypt. After it turns out that the hand is in Lorraine, the head in Albion and the heart in Australia, the race between Jacob and the Goyl comes to a head. First, the Goyl finds the hand in a church made of bones, while Jacob is still looking for the head in Albion. But this catches up quickly and finds the head. As soon as Fuchs and Jacob separate (Fuchs wants to visit her mother), the Goyl, who conjures up a spell to Jacob, takes the hero's head off and leaves him in a hedge of thorns with a pack of wolves.

Jacob is saved then by the nobleman Troisclerq which, as can be seen later, a Bluebeard is. Jacob now travels to Australia with Bluebeard and Fox in order to find the heart of the Witch King. As they get out of the carriage, the Bluebeard Fox lights a flower and walks away with it. During this time Jacob visits the goldsmith of the imperial family to ask him about the witcher's heart. He tells him that his granddaughter was wearing a chain with her heart when she disappeared. When asked if she was still alive, the goldsmith said that by sticking a flower on the niece's dress, he revealed the kidnapper to be bluebeard. Jacob then realizes that he left Fuchs with a bluebeard. Jacob meets his old friend Donnersmarck, who accompanies Jacob to the Bluebeard's house. When the two arrive there, Donnersmarck is seriously injured by a servant, a deer. After Jacob kills Bluebeard and freed Fuchs, they seek out a witch who heals Jacob's friend.

Nerron is on Jacob's trail and finds him at the witch's house. Jacob sends Fuchs with his heart to a dwarf friend, but is arrested in the witch's barn by Goyl, the prince, Aquarius and the court tutor. The four transport him to a meeting point where they are supposed to negotiate with the dwarf. However, they are surprised by two Rieslings that ensure that Jacob and Fuchs can escape with all parts of the witcher's body. Jacob inserts the missing parts and the witch-slayer's lock appears, in which the crossbow is hidden.

Jacob and Fuchs split up inside and Jacob meets the Goyl and finds the crossbow. When they reach for it, a spell is activated that is supposed to awaken the king again over the years. However, Fuchs shoots the king and he turns to dust. The two are free, but Nerron still has the crossbow, which turns out to be an elf weapon. He shoots Jacob, but the magic of the weapon frees him from the fairy curse. Fuchs takes the crossbow from Goyl and flees with Jacob through a mirror of the king (who came from the other world) to Poland, where they destroy the counterpart of this world.

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  1. ↑ Book tip on the literature page of the NDR. Archived from the original on July 29, 2013 ; Retrieved September 25, 2012 .