- Status
- Complete series
- Published books
- 3
- Commitment
- Short series
- Audience
- Middle Grade / Crossover
A completed comic fantasy trilogy of loosely connected adventures, difficult wizards, and transforming magic.
The film adaptation has a different emphasis. These profiles describe the novels and their more comic, puzzle-like storytelling.
Best if you want
- Clever fairy-tale magic and comic character friction.
- Books that work individually inside a shared world.
Think twice if you need
- A single continuous protagonist arc.
- A sober tone or fully systematized magic.
Outside the score
Reader context
Series information guides suitability and commitment. Matrix scores remain attached to individual books.
Reader advisories
- Violence
- Child peril
Books in this series
Compare the individual volumes.
1 of 3 published books currently have a full Matrix profile.
Howl's Moving Castle
Diana Wynne Jones
Sophie leaves her family shop after the Witch of the Waste transforms her, becoming entangled with Howl, a fire demon, and several overlapping enchantments.