smokeandsmut 's review for:

Highfire by Eoin Colfer

3.0

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I absolutely adored the Artemis Fowl books as a kid, so was really excited to hear about this new offering from Eoin Colfer. It has many of his classic elements to it - the fantasy world clashing spectacularly with the everyday world, wisecracking protagonists, and a dash of toilet humour - so if that's what you like about his other works, you'll enjoy this. I did, however, expect a little bit more to an 'adult' novel than just cursing and violence - take the gore and the 'motherfuckers' out, and it was very YA. Also it took a while for the plot to start picking up pace. But the world of the Louisiana bayou was wonderfully rendered, the characters were imaginatively played out, and - overall - it was fun.