So this was another of my favorites as a kid. I just loved the fact that the Castle had, in its own way, a personality and mind of its own. Dor is kind of a brat in the beginning of the book, but turns out to be a likable kid, and the other characters are a lot of fun. There's Anthony's usual amount of smut-treating women as objects/inferior creatures - but not as much as in most of his books, by a long short.

It definitely wasn't as enjoyable as when I was in the forth grade, let me tell you I loved those books then. Even though the books are written for adults, they really are written for juvenile males, and as an adult female, I really notice that now.

(note for goodreads: I'm leaving the five star rating for old time's sake; but in honesty, I can only give it three stars as an adult)