Castle in the Air

A wacky take on the classic Arabian nights genre this is Jones at her best – nothing is as it seems, and in the end there are several morals to be learned. However, the link between Castle in the Air and [b:Howl's Moving Castle 6294 Howl's Moving Castle Diana Wynne Jones http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165560187s/6294.jpg 2001] is tenuous at best, and at worst Castle in the Air is cheapened by the association, as the feel is extremely different and the characters from Howl seem shoehorned in.

é TÃO bom quando retornamos a um universo que lembramos o quão “heart warming” ele era.
Confesso que, no começo, pensei “Howl's é infinitamente melhor”. Me perdia na família de Abdullah, e não entendia os “pra ques” da estória. Então, tivemos o gênio, os reis, o gradual desenvolvimento do instalove e, como meu amor por sequências e crossovers é imenso, HOWL, SOPHIE, LETTIE, SULLIVAN, CALCIFER e meu coração derretido, aparecem novamente.
E nos apaixonamos pelo livro. Ponto.
É o tipo de livro que eu gostaria que lessem para crianças antes de dormir, para que sonhem com reinos nos céus, amores verdadeiros, mulheres fortes como a Sophie, Gênios, feiticeiros como o Howl, demônios de fogo que se transformam em tapetes como o Cálcifer.

After re-reading Howl's Moving Castle, which I turned out not to have remembered practically at all, I decided to read the sequel. I had not read it previously, possibly because it did not seem to be much of a direct sequel. I decided to read it, and Howl and Sophie do eventually appear.

I loved the new characters and different type of fairytale world. It reminded me a bit of The Horse and His Boy in the Chronicles of Narnia, where the book starts out with a character in a very different place, but it does give some information on your main characters from the previous books eventually.