3 tables joins on One to many - mysql

Question

Im having some troubles learning about joins, im working with 2 One-to-many relation ships:
In this case, i have novels with many chapters and many ratings
I need to get the novels information plus a count of chapters associated to each novel and an avarage of the ratings of each novel and im trying this:
SELECT n.id
, n.nvl_title
, COUNT(c.id) AS nvl_chapters
, AVG(nr.rate_value) as nvl_rating
, MAX(c.createdAt) AS nvl_last_update
FROM novels n
left
JOIN novels_ratings nr
ON nr.novel_id = n.id
left
JOIN chapters c
ON c.nvl_id = n.id
AND c.chp_status = 'Active'
WHERE n.nvl_status IN ("Active", "Finished")
GROUP
BY n.id;
Working only with the chapters the query seems to work very fine but if I add the line "left JOIN novels_ratings nr ON nr.novel_id = n.id" the chapters count increment to many ratings the novel have.
For example: A novel with 2 chapters and 2 rating returns 4 chapters in total.
Any help will be fully apreciated.
If there is something I miss to explain, please, let me know and i will try to clarify.
I'veen working with some ugly querys that do the job but as soon as the chapters table begin to have MANY registers I have been forced to learn more optical querys
EDIT
I have create a small database, enough to make some tests on the query:
SET SQL_MODE = "NO_AUTO_VALUE_ON_ZERO";
SET AUTOCOMMIT = 0;
START TRANSACTION;
SET time_zone = "+00:00";
CREATE TABLE `chapters` (
`id` int(11) NOT NULL,
`nvl_id` int(20) DEFAULT NULL,
`chp_title` varchar(250) DEFAULT NULL,
`chp_status` varchar(8) NOT NULL DEFAULT 'Active',
`createdAt` datetime NOT NULL DEFAULT '0000-00-00 00:00:00'
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8mb4 COLLATE=utf8mb4_0900_ai_ci;
INSERT INTO `chapters` (`id`, `nvl_id`, `chp_title`, `chp_status`, `createdAt`) VALUES
(1, 1, 'generic chapter 1', 'Active', '0000-00-00 00:00:00'),
(2, 1, 'generic chapter 2', 'Active', '0000-00-00 00:00:00');
CREATE TABLE `novels` (
`id` int(20) NOT NULL,
`nvl_title` varchar(250) DEFAULT NULL,
`nvl_status` varchar(8) NOT NULL DEFAULT 'Active'
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8mb4 COLLATE=utf8mb4_0900_ai_ci;
INSERT INTO `novels` (`id`, `nvl_title`, `nvl_status`) VALUES
(1, 'generic novel', 'Active');
CREATE TABLE `novels_ratings` (
`id` int(20) NOT NULL,
`novel_id` int(20) DEFAULT NULL,
`rate_value` int(20) DEFAULT NULL
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8mb4 COLLATE=utf8mb4_0900_ai_ci;
INSERT INTO `novels_ratings` (`id`, `novel_id`, `rate_value`) VALUES
(1, 1, 3),
(2, 1, 4);
ALTER TABLE `chapters`
ADD PRIMARY KEY (`id`);
ALTER TABLE `novels`
ADD PRIMARY KEY (`id`);
ALTER TABLE `novels_ratings`
ADD PRIMARY KEY (`id`);
ALTER TABLE `chapters`
MODIFY `id` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, AUTO_INCREMENT=3;
ALTER TABLE `novels`
MODIFY `id` int(20) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, AUTO_INCREMENT=2;
ALTER TABLE `novels_ratings`
MODIFY `id` int(20) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, AUTO_INCREMENT=3;
COMMIT;
Thank you very much!

Answer 1

I think the simplest way to do this is here:
SELECT n.id, n.nvl_title,
COUNT(c.id) AS nvl_chapters,
(select AVG(nr.rate_value) from novels_ratings nr where nr.novel_id = n.id) as nvl_rating,
MAX(c.createdAt) AS nvl_last_update
FROM novels n
left JOIN chapters c ON c.nvl_id = n.id AND c.chp_status = 'Active'
WHERE n.nvl_status IN ("Active", "Finished")
GROUP BY n.id;
Very straightforward, and it should perform well too.

Answer 2

This is a complete solution (finally). Since MySQL does not implement FULL JOIN the solution uses a LEFT JOIN paired with a RIGHT JOIN instead.
You can do:
with
r as (
select n.id, avg(nr.rate_value) as nvl_rating
from novels n
join novels_ratings nr on nr.novel_id = n.id
group by n.id
),
c as (
select n.id, count(c.id) as nvl_chapters, max(c.createdAt) as nvl_last_update
from novels n
join chapters c on c.nvl_id = n.id and c.chp_status = 'Active'
group by n.id
)
select r.id, r.nvl_rating, c.*
from r
left join c on c.id = r.id
UNION ALL
select c.id, r.nvl_rating, c.*
from r
right join c on c.id = r.id
where r.id is null