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cyrce 's review for:
The Time Paradox
by Eoin Colfer
There are only three books left in the Artemis Fowl series, including this one; The Time Paradox. It warms me to see that Colfer didn’t let the spatial-temporal traveling that Holly and Artemis experienced in the last book fall by the wayside. While the previous adventure had Artemis discovering that he could ‘borrow’ magic while traveling through time, The Time Paradox brings in time travel to further complicate the Fowl timeline.
Apart from the second situational reversal, Colfer does make use of the time travel and the paradoxes that could occur with it. It’s nice to see Holly forced into a situation where her position as a LEP officer doesn’t afford her much of the tech that could help them in their latest escapade.
I have to say that I didn’t really get as interested in this entry in the Artemis Fowl series as I did with the first book. I kept waiting for there to be real conflict in the book and, while Artemis and Holly have a clear goal, there isn’t any clear conflict like there was in Artemis Fowl for most of the book. It was hard to continue reading even though I do like Holly and Artemis.
Spoiler
How, exactly does it manage to do that? It plays out by taking away from Artemis yet another thing I’d hoped would stay in the series–the magic Artemis had stolen in the previous book was used up in the beginning. Yet another reversal by Eoin Colfer. I’m curious to see exactly how the series was plotted out. Was it book by book or all at once? At yet I stick with it. Probably out of stubbornness. I don’t like leaving a series unfinished.Apart from the second situational reversal, Colfer does make use of the time travel and the paradoxes that could occur with it. It’s nice to see Holly forced into a situation where her position as a LEP officer doesn’t afford her much of the tech that could help them in their latest escapade.
I have to say that I didn’t really get as interested in this entry in the Artemis Fowl series as I did with the first book. I kept waiting for there to be real conflict in the book and, while Artemis and Holly have a clear goal, there isn’t any clear conflict like there was in Artemis Fowl for most of the book. It was hard to continue reading even though I do like Holly and Artemis.