Thanks for the feedback on this one. It was kind of intense to write (probably why I generally stick to comedy), so it's nice to know some that feeling was conveyed to the reader.


Thanks also for the Howl info! I did finally check out the English version, and it was a little clearer - but still it seemed a little anticlimatic. Suliman seemed so obsessed with Howl (was it my imagination or were her little pageboy minions basically just young Howl clones?) to the point where the war took kind of a back seat to their fight, and then all of a sudden it was like, Oh, guess the war's over now, too bad. But I do see how Turniphead fits in now. (I tried to get the book out of the university library and it was missing, dammit! Liberated by some rabid fangirl, no doubt. *looks around nervously* It wasn't me - I SWEAR!)