This Genie is cantankerous, and overall an unwilling character of the story. Abdullah pursues her, and through various mishaps, comes across a Genie in a bottle. But, nothing is ever so simple.Ī Djinn, leathery and winged, scoops up Flower-in-the-Night, just as she’s running to join Abdullah on his magic carpet, kidnapping her. Thinking he is but dreaming, Abdullah tells the princess that he is a lost prince, kidnapped at birth and brought to Zanzib to lead a dreadfully mundane life.īut, when Abdullah realizes that the princess, named Flower-in-the-Night, is in fact real, and that they both love one another very much, he is determined to marry her and fly off into the sunset. The carpet whisks him away in his sleep to a beautiful night garden, where an enchanting princess is kept in solitude. In Diana Wynne Jones typically cheeky way, this happened both literally and figuratively.Ībdullah’s dreams begin to come true after buying a magic carpet. His father’s only son, he was to follow in his footsteps, except a prophecy at his birth foretold that he would not carry on the carpet business, and would in fact rise above all others in the land. He’s a man of daydreams, whose childhood was full of disappointment and derision. This book follows Abdullah, a carpet merchant in far away Zanzib. Though Howl and Sophie play much smaller roles, they are present, and they warmed my heart as ever.
It’s late, so let me get right to the point.įirst, this book follows much in the same vein as the first book.
As promised, I finished The Castle in the Air this weekend, and so I’m here to review it before my entire life is absorbed by The Bands of Mourning (out tomorrow!).
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