Castle in the Air by Diana Wynne Jones

As I said before in the previous blog, I finished reading the wonderful book Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones. There is a sequel to this book called Castle in the Air and it is obviously written by Diana Wynne Jones also! I wanted to read this book because Howl's Moving Castle was such a good book and when I found out that there was a sequel to this book I was so excited and I knew I just had to read this book. I really wanted to know what happened to Howl, Sophie, Calcifer, Michael, and everyone else in the book, and I knew that the sequel would be just as fun as Howl's Moving Castle because Diana Wynne Jones is such a good writer. I started reading Castle in the Air! I read the first 100 pages and I was very confused and upset that Howl and Sophie isn't coming out in the story. The book even says "sequel to Howl's Moving Castle", but there is no sign of the original characters! This is very sad, but even though Howl and Sophie are not coming out, I will keep on reading this book because I think it is okay.
What happened so far is that there is this carpet merchant named Abdullah, and he is just an average person living in Zanzib who always loved to daydream. He always daydreamed that he was in beautiful garden and there was a lovely girl there. One day, this man came up to him and he said that he would sell him a very dirty, ugly, and raggedy carpet to Abdullah. Abdullah did not want to buy it because it was so disgusting, but then the man said that it was a magic carpet, and he said that he wanted 500 gold pieces. After much haggling, Abdullah finally bought it. The carpet really was a magic carpet because the carpet would go anywhere that the rider wanted to go. The rider had to simply state where he/she wanted to go and then the carpet would zip away!!!! But the thing was that whenever Abdullah said the place where he wanted to go, the carpet wouldn't move and Abdullah was very mad. When he got home, Abdullah slept on the magic carpet and when he woke up, he found himself in the beautiful garden that he always daydreamed of. Then, he saw the beautiful girl. The girl and Abdullah talked a lot with each other. He found out that her name was Flower-in-the-night (I find it very odd but he thinks that it is such a beautiful name o_O), and they fell in love. Actually, Flower-in-the-night never met a man besides her father so she thought that Abdullah was a girl, but later on Abdullah brought pictures of many different kinds of men and Flower-in-the-night said that she still liked Abdullah the best. (How romantic!!) Abdullah thought that it was a dream, but it wasn't and he really wanted to go back to the garden in which Flower-in-the-night was in. Abdullah always slept on his magic carpet and he always seemed to wake up in the same garden. One day, Abdullah and Flower-in-the-night decided to get married, but then Flower-in-the-night's father wanted her to marry a prince, so they had to run away to get married. Abdullah came to the garden again and then Flower-in-the-night was about to hug Abdullah but suddenly, a monsterous creature came swooping down and kidnapped Abdullah before his very eyes! This is all I really read so far. Pretty interesting if you ask me. Still, it would have been better if Howl and Sophie came out because I just love that couple!~