So I know it's been like 12 years, but this is still hands down the absolute best fic I've ever read and in my soul the spiritual successor to HMC. I'm really glad it's still here.

Oh, how wonderfully well written! I know it’s been forever since you updated, but is there any chance? It’s so rare to find a well written version of Howl’s Moving Castle from Howell’s version.

A brilliant story and I hope that one day before I perish I shall open the site and find it updated if you ever choose to finish it. It’s really nice reading everything from Howl’s perspective

I just found this story and I think it's brilliant! I'm definitely going to be checking back on the off chance it gets updated :)

I always come back here from time to time :)

Gorgeously written and fleshed out from the events of HMC. Poor cowardly Howl who is trying so hard! It's been over a decade since you last posted but if you do get the chance to revisit, there would be a lot of readers :) thanks for sharing!

Just wanted to pop in and say that this was one of the best pieces I've come across on the site - I'm absolutely enchanted! If you ever feel the inspiration to keep going, I think I'm not alone in saying I would be right here waiting for more!

Found this story 3 yrs ago when I didn't have an account and I remembered the name of this fic to this day. I think you should know that many people remember you story and hope that you'll one day finish it. I read this fanfic, then immediately went and book, hoping that it would at least be half as good as yours

I haven't touched my FF account in like 5 years, but I logged in to tell you that this fic is everything I didn't know I wanted and more! Recently reread the book, and left me craving for Howl's POV, which you've recreated beautifully. Now I know that the chance is probably slim, but if you ever find the time to continue this story, know that you will have someone itching to read it!

It's amazing to me that 10 years have passed since this story last was updated, and even longer than that since I first began reading this story (just a short bit after I read Diane Wynne Jones' novel). I still come back to have a look every couple of years, hoping unrealistically that this story might be completed. I don't expect it, mind you - I understand the author will have moved on to their own projects and a fan fiction might not seem so pressing anymore. I deeply appreciate what's been written. I feel that it's an excellent, beautiful compliment to the original novel. The fact that I can't stop coming back here also says to me that the author is wildly talented. I hope, if they ever write their own fictional novel, that they advertise it here so I can get a taste of that wittiness that so charmed me the first time I read this story. In my ideal future, of course, Ms. Jones contacts this author and asks her to complete it, under her own publisher, as a parallel novel to Howl's Moving Castle ala Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow. One can always dream!

I've been reading through this alongside HMC, and really loved it. You have a real talent for capturing characters' voices. If the Muse strikes again, know that people are still interested in this story!

I re-read this last week and then re-read HMC and now I'm reading it again :) I suppose you probably won't finish it, but if you do, just know you have lots of fans who will be very very happy.

I absolutely love this chapter. It helps to explain so much. I never did bleieve for a moment that Howl didn't see through that curse immediately, and always wondered why he let her stay anyway. Brilliant job! You are a genius!

I really, REALLY hope you finish this story. It's my favorite on the platform. I keep coming back to it, hoping against hope that you might have updated it. I love your writing. Please keep it up!

hello,
I know I've reviewed this story before (back when I had a username and login) and just today the bookmark crossed my path and I thought I'd take the opportunity to re-read. :)
It is just as delightful as I remember! Well-written and truly, completely in the spirit of the original book. Really a true delight!
Thank you for sharing with us.
(I know it is nearly a decade since you updated, but I hope you are well, and I hope that you are still using your wonderful writing talents somewhere out there in the world)
-A grateful reader