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16 July 2008 9:01 PM, PDT | From avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news

At this point in her nearly 40-year writing career, fantasy master Diana Wynne Jones has fallen into a predictable pattern: Throw a semi-sympathetic character into a hairy situation, then pile on the overwhelming, distracting forces of chaos, skimming past deeper character development while stirring the action up into a wild froth. Then resolve the central plot thread with a short, sharp tug at the end. Each of her books frequently reads like a collection of screwball comedies, distilled down to their essence and poured together so plotlines cross and crash. The formula isn't always satisfying, but it's inevitably a great deal of fast-paced fun. Jones' latest, House Of Many Ways, is being billed as "the sequel to Howl's Moving Castle," the 1986 fantasy classic that Hayao Miyazaki loosely adapted into an animated film in 2004. But it's actually the second Howl's sequel, after 1990's Castle In The Air, and...

Tasha Robinson

1 article from 2008