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3.92 AVERAGE
3.92 AVERAGE
As always, I am loving Nathaniel Parker's interpretation in the Artemis Fowl series! Impeccable acting and authentic accents.
I have nothing intelligent to say about this book. I mean, it was a fast-paced, complicated (but ultimately well-plotted) story with lots of action and high stakes, but really the whole time my brain was all stuck on "Artemis/Holly! SQUEE!!!"
Seriously, I never thought it would really happen that the two of them would admit an attraction to each other even to themselves, let alone act on it (however briefly). I figured the growing UST* I'd perceived between them was mostly in my deranged imagination. What a surprise to find the author apparently agreeing with me!
And yet, nothing was really resolved. Next book, please?
Yes, I am twelve.
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* Unresolved Sexual Tension.
Seriously, I never thought it would really happen that the two of them would admit an attraction to each other even to themselves, let alone act on it (however briefly). I figured the growing UST* I'd perceived between them was mostly in my deranged imagination. What a surprise to find the author apparently agreeing with me!
And yet, nothing was really resolved. Next book, please?
Yes, I am twelve.
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* Unresolved Sexual Tension.
Good gravy. Every single time you think things can't possibly get any worse, THEY GET TEN TIMES WORSE. Eoin is clearly trying to kill me.
adventurous
funny
fast-paced
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
It was only a matter of time until Eoin Colfer's Artemis Fowl series encountered time travel, and he handled it with the same wonderful thoughtfulness that the rest of the series has.
adventurous
challenging
dark
funny
sad
tense
fast-paced
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
funny
relaxing
tense
medium-paced
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This book is heavy on time travel which makes it a bit silly at times. It has the usual time travel tropes like meeting past selves, unexplained paradoxes, changing the future through manipulating the past, etc. The primary bad guy is recycled from previous books . Still a solid Artemis Fowl book but not my favorite.
I must say I'm quite disappointed whit this instalment since I was really looking forward to some good scheming with all the Artemis-has-magic fact. Instead this is literally wasted in the first chapter.
This book was such a mess. So apparently puberty made Artemis a good guy with morals and guilty consciousness but somehow this time jump completely robbed him of his intellect and planing skills not to mention turned him into tight-rope daredevil. I preferred the 10-year old Artemis more than the present one which means I really miss his composure and an eye for detail. It's like Artemis-14 completely forgot to think since they arrived in the past. I got the feeling like some brain matter got mixed up with Holly’s on the way there so now he is all for action, crawling through tunnels, climbing pylons, winching on electric cables, etc.
With this instalment all we are offered is constant exchange of protecting, healing and saving between Holly and Artemis-14. It's like there is no other way to present the plot in this book than for either of them getting almost killed and saved by the other in every single chapter.
And since Opal Koboi, the bad girl that will apparently become the main villain of this series, escaped in the end I am probably not wrong to think that she will appear in the next book, but I also think that she got the villain role in this book as a last resort to save the plot in this book. I was not amused.
This book was such a mess. So apparently puberty made Artemis a good guy with morals and guilty consciousness but somehow this time jump completely robbed him of his intellect and planing skills not to mention turned him into tight-rope daredevil. I preferred the 10-year old Artemis more than the present one which means I really miss his composure and an eye for detail. It's like Artemis-14 completely forgot to think since they arrived in the past. I got the feeling like some brain matter got mixed up with Holly’s on the way there so now he is all for action, crawling through tunnels, climbing pylons, winching on electric cables, etc.
With this instalment all we are offered is constant exchange of protecting, healing and saving between Holly and Artemis-14. It's like there is no other way to present the plot in this book than for either of them getting almost killed and saved by the other in every single chapter.