Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer – To say this little children’s book is action packed is an understatement. People, fairies, dwarves and trolls crash into one another like contestants in a backwoods county’s demolition derby. There are guns, military squads, bombs, martial arts and a dwarf that farts earth with such force he blows a guy through a wall…yeah, I know it doesn’t make any sense but that’s the only way I can explain it.
This is all fine and good and makes for an enjoyable read, but it would mean so much more if it was written around characters I didn’t hate. In short, all the characters are bastards and I pretty much hoped throughout that most would die horrible deaths. The book almost redeemed itself when a battle between a troll and a sword wielding human built like a tank left the human a broken bloody mess, but more importantly…dead. Of course the author had to go and screw it all up by having some fairy resurrect him or some such nonsense.
More bloody and violent than Harry Potter but not as engaging, this book makes for an enjoyably quick read but I’m not running out to get the rest of the series anytime soon…actually probably never.
Today's linky goodness: http://travel.latimes.com/articles/la-trw-utah17-2008aug17
Cry you bastards, cry!
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