Not as good as House of Many Ways or Howl's moving castle. There were just too many plotholes and tangential plotpoints. Jones' stories tend to wrap up messily and fast; this book did not have the build up to support that kind of ending. 

It's nice seeing Sophie and Howl again. I like how each of the stories set in this universe adds to the world-building and the story of the characters living in it. The orientalism in this book was a bit yikes though.