Castle In The Air

As you know I have been very tight with my money lately and I've been trying to minimize my spending by borrowing books from my little brother and sister(there are no library around my house)Sadly the've been quite cross with me because I have been rummaging through their shelf for two month so they've decided to ban me from reading their book for a whole month.Since I did not have a new book I decided to reread a book I had not read for more than 3 years..The book was Castle In The Air.It is a book written by my favourite author Diana Wynne Jones.It is the second book of the series.The first one was Howl's Moving Castle.One of my favourite book,I've wrote my review for it about one and a half year ago(for my first year celebration)Anyway this book is published in the year !990,four years after the first one was published.

The High and Low
.The story has a great theme(One Thousand and One Night)
.The characters are great as always

.The story felt a little bit inferior to its predecessor

Quick Summary\
This story tells a story at a country far away from Ingrary.Abdullah is a carpet merchant(A quite succesful one)he works all day trying to make a living and trying to avoid his hateful relatives who has always been dissapointed on him.Oneday he acquired a magic carpet that could fly from a mysterious stranger.On that night while he was sleeping(He was sleeping on the magic carpet for fearing the carpet would fly to it's previous owner when he is sleeping)the carpet send him to a castle.There he meets a princess named Flower In The Night.At first she mistakes him as a girl because she has never seen another man besides her father and he was wearing long clothes and a turban not to mention it was very dark.Anyway they had a little talk.Flower In The Night has never seen another man besides her father and Abdullah but she is going to be wed very soon but because she doesn't know much about men she flt really anxious.Abdullah decided that he will come here again tomorrow and bring her pictures of men from around the world.......................That's all I'm going to tell.

The Conclusion
Diana Wynne Jones is one of the best fantasy author and here she proves yet again that she is not giving that title to anyone(I'm sorry J K Rowling).The story has a great theme which is A thousand and one night.As a fantasy lover I have always loved reading it and here Diana Wynne Jones do justice to its theme.The story was fun,humourous and imaginative and the characters are great(Diana Wynne Jones has a knack of making amazing characters)The only thing that I might complain was the story felt somewhat inferior to Howl's Moving Castle.Don't get me wrong Castle In Sky is amazing but to me Howl's Moving Castle is one of the best book ever read so of course Castle In The Sky couldn't match up to it.To tell you the truth I felt quite sad writing this review.I simply couldn't use past tense when I was talking about Diana wynne Jones.She was definitely a great fantasy author but the sad thing was she never received the fame or credit like her peers did.Here is my last thanks to a wonderful author who let me know how wonderful it is to read a book.
Thank You Diana Wynne Jones,we will cherish your books forever.

Rating:9 out of 10