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3.71 AVERAGE
3.71 AVERAGE
Still such a fantastic start to a fantastic series!! Ugh!! Not looking forward to watching the movie pull a PJO with it in a couple of days though...
Cute book. The audio was fantastic! My nine-year-old son loved it tremendously. I thought it was very descriptive and imaginative and clever. My favourite part was the fairy named Holly who was a member of the LEP Recon Unit, so witty.
I honestly enjoyed this book. I loved the characters and felt semi invested and a desire to pick up the next one. However a 5 star book for me is one I literally will stay up all night reading "just one more" chapter and this didnt quite get me there. Overall it was enjoyable, but didnt quite push me into 5 star status.
I re-read this book before watching the movies released on Disney Plus. It is still a fun little read. I love the character of Captian Holly. She is the first female officer in the LEP, and has to work twice as hard to prove herself than the boys. Unfortunately, after a recon mission, she finds herself at the wrong place at the wrong time. She is kidnapped by a 12-year-old boy. This leads to a mess load of shenanigans trying to save her from the Mud people
This story was interesting enough, and the Fae world of "The people" Colfer creates is fun and often humorous. The plot moves at a good pace while pulling the reader along.
The issue I have with this book is that I have a difficult time connecting to a protagonist who is little more than a child criminal. Artemis Fowl is absolutely the villain of this story, driven entirely by greed and power. All he wants is to restore his missing father's criminal empire. How am I supposed to cheer for that? If the answer is that I'm not, that Fowl is the villain and not the protagonist, and that Holly and The People are the protagonists, I would argue that's not the way it's presented.
The book starts with Fowl, and we spend enough time with him, seeing his personal life, his goals and dreams, his failures (which are very few, almost Mary Sue-ish), that we are supposed to sympathize with him, much more than with any of the other characters. Do we meet Holly's mother? Do we know what kind of home life Commander Root has? No, Fowl is the protagonist, and I just couldn't quite get behind that. Yes, he made some moral decisions in the end, but he still took the money, still plans the rebuild a criminal empire, and according to the narrator, the People spend decades constantly fighting against Fowl as a criminal. So, as fun as this book was in places, I don't think I'll be reading any more of them in the future.
The issue I have with this book is that I have a difficult time connecting to a protagonist who is little more than a child criminal. Artemis Fowl is absolutely the villain of this story, driven entirely by greed and power. All he wants is to restore his missing father's criminal empire. How am I supposed to cheer for that? If the answer is that I'm not, that Fowl is the villain and not the protagonist, and that Holly and The People are the protagonists, I would argue that's not the way it's presented.
The book starts with Fowl, and we spend enough time with him, seeing his personal life, his goals and dreams, his failures (which are very few, almost Mary Sue-ish), that we are supposed to sympathize with him, much more than with any of the other characters. Do we meet Holly's mother? Do we know what kind of home life Commander Root has? No, Fowl is the protagonist, and I just couldn't quite get behind that. Yes, he made some moral decisions in the end, but he still took the money, still plans the rebuild a criminal empire, and according to the narrator, the People spend decades constantly fighting against Fowl as a criminal. So, as fun as this book was in places, I don't think I'll be reading any more of them in the future.
A promising start to a fun series
Combine parts of the Harry Potter-verse with Groo from Despicable Me add a dash of young Sheldon from The Big Bang Theory...that sets up the characters in the book. It’s fun. I am going to continue reading this series because I like the tension between Artemis and Holly. This is a unique perspective when the main character is not quite a good guy but not quite a bad guy and I am not really sure if I like him. Onto the next book in the series.
Combine parts of the Harry Potter-verse with Groo from Despicable Me add a dash of young Sheldon from The Big Bang Theory...that sets up the characters in the book. It’s fun. I am going to continue reading this series because I like the tension between Artemis and Holly. This is a unique perspective when the main character is not quite a good guy but not quite a bad guy and I am not really sure if I like him. Onto the next book in the series.
I read this mostly because I'd heard Eoin Colfer compared to JK Rowling, and I knew he'd done the estate-sanctioned Hitchhiker's final book. It wasn't bad. Something I could see reading to my kids in the future. I don't feel particularly compelled to read any more of them though.
This book is described on the cover as "James Bond meets Fairies" (or something gimmicky like that), so I was never really interested in reading it. But a mom came into the library the other day and was asking me about it, so I looked it up on Wikipedia and ended up curious enough to give it a whirl.
It's definitely not my favorite children's fantasy series, but it's not bad. I got pretty tired of Root's face turning purple, but I was truly charmed by the author's use of flatulence as a weapon.
It's definitely not my favorite children's fantasy series, but it's not bad. I got pretty tired of Root's face turning purple, but I was truly charmed by the author's use of flatulence as a weapon.