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A review by skillyillian
Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
adventurous
emotional
funny
lighthearted
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
it hurts me to give this a low score bc ofc i love the movie so much, but this made me realize that the movie took the title of the book, the characters, and the bare bones and left everything else behind.
what the fuck do you mean howl is welsh???????
the narrator of the audiobook did excellent voices for everyone, and even did a welsh accent for howl. she did a great job. but that was also as much love as i could muster for the book. the story takes ages and ages for anything exciting to happen, there's oodles of stuff that didn't need to happen or be described to the length it was, and howl -- i'm so sorry -- is fucking insufferable. he's a narcissistic little shit and he's so mean to sophie!!! i know she's meddlesome but oh my god does he whinge about it endlessly and just make fun of her the entire time. there's no romance, no developing relationship or anything, it's just him calling her "mrs. big nose" until they hold hands at the very end of the story. good god it was exhausting. he's a spoiled brat!!!! and he did not grow out of it by the end of the book! this, for me, is one of the rare instances where i actually liked the movie better. there's too much book here for the whole lot of nothing that happens. it's all vibes, almost no plot, and the plot that is there is just howl being a whore with everyone in town (multiple towns, actually) while sophie, calcifer, and michael do everything for him the entire time and then he complains about it because it isn't exactly how he wants it done. no thank you.
what the fuck do you mean howl is welsh???????
the narrator of the audiobook did excellent voices for everyone, and even did a welsh accent for howl. she did a great job. but that was also as much love as i could muster for the book. the story takes ages and ages for anything exciting to happen, there's oodles of stuff that didn't need to happen or be described to the length it was, and howl -- i'm so sorry -- is fucking insufferable. he's a narcissistic little shit and he's so mean to sophie!!! i know she's meddlesome but oh my god does he whinge about it endlessly and just make fun of her the entire time. there's no romance, no developing relationship or anything, it's just him calling her "mrs. big nose" until they hold hands at the very end of the story. good god it was exhausting. he's a spoiled brat!!!! and he did not grow out of it by the end of the book! this, for me, is one of the rare instances where i actually liked the movie better. there's too much book here for the whole lot of nothing that happens. it's all vibes, almost no plot, and the plot that is there is just howl being a whore with everyone in town (multiple towns, actually) while sophie, calcifer, and michael do everything for him the entire time and then he complains about it because it isn't exactly how he wants it done. no thank you.