Ohghod, Fire & Hemlock, in my teens I would have eaten that up with ten silver spoons, but I discovered DWJ rather late in life (at least later than all my friends) and all I could think was "POLLY, THIS GUY IS NO GOOD FOR YOU." He was so mean and nasty to her! Which is totally not what I am supposed to get from that book, I know.

(I do love the reversal in HMC, where Sophie is old and Howl is young and heartless. Old women protagonists are still so rare, it feels like.)