Book Review!!!

Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones


This book is rather interesting if you get the chance to read it. There's magic, adventure, guessing, and a few surprises along the way. 
We start out with Sophie Hatter, the main character we follow throughout the story line. She is the eldest of three daughters and her father had past away leaving her step mother with the hat shop. There is a saying in the land of Ingary that the eldest of three will never be successful. Our main girl believes that. The mother sends away the two youngest, one to a bakery and the other to a witch to be apprentices. However, these girls do not quite like where they were placed so they switched with each other. Quite mischievous really. 

"I hope your bacon burns"

Sophie ends up meeting the Witch of the Waste (our main bad guy... or rather girl) The witch casts a curse on her and our poor girl is turned into an old woman. Creaky bones and wrinkly skin doesn't quite sound like my cup of tea. So, Sophie leaves the shop and ends up in Howl's castle which she things is more of a dump then a castle. She meets a fire demon named Calsifer, a teenaged boy named Micheal Fisher, and our favorite wizard Howl!!! 

"Yes, you are nosy. You're dreadfully nosy, horribly bossy, appallingly clean old woman. Control yourself. You're victimizing us all."

Howl proves to be a bit annoying and a major playboy, but in the end he tells the truth and seems to be less obnoxious... 

"I think we ought to live happily ever after"

 All in all, I give this book a 9 out of 10.