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sasstronaut 's review for:
Howl's Moving Castle
by Diana Wynne Jones
Right from the start this reminds of a childhood fairytale and it never stops even to the end.
I always love stories like these that bring me into a time of more comfortable uncertainty or resigned acceptance of the unexplainable (or perhaps too dark) things around us. I like the kind of magic present in these books - where words have power and magic can come from belief, both from the caster and the user.
It’s great fun to go with Sophie in her adventures and it shows how extraordinary our lives can be if we make our own way instead of quietly settling into our fate. This is a classic, fun, fairytale, told with peripheral characters and details without the forced arrows pointing you at everything as you go. A wonderful book to while away a weekend.
Once I finished reading I found I missed the characters already, and I kind of want to read it all over again! That hasn’t happened in a long time.
I always love stories like these that bring me into a time of more comfortable uncertainty or resigned acceptance of the unexplainable (or perhaps too dark) things around us. I like the kind of magic present in these books - where words have power and magic can come from belief, both from the caster and the user.
It’s great fun to go with Sophie in her adventures and it shows how extraordinary our lives can be if we make our own way instead of quietly settling into our fate. This is a classic, fun, fairytale, told with peripheral characters and details without the forced arrows pointing you at everything as you go. A wonderful book to while away a weekend.
Once I finished reading I found I missed the characters already, and I kind of want to read it all over again! That hasn’t happened in a long time.