Colfer, Eoin. Artemis Fowl. New York: Scholastic, 2001. 277 pages. (Fantasy Series / Humor)Artemis Fowl is perhaps the greatest mind the world has ever seen. He is smart, clever, and is only twelve years old! His mind games and puzzles have stumped some of the world’s best physiologists and professors and sent them to their own wards. There is no doubt that Artemis Fowl is a child prodigy. But, he wastes his intellect on criminal mischief. He kidnapped Captain Holly Short of the LEP Recon unit and is holding the elf hostage until the fairy police pay him the ransom in gold. Now he has to deal with the fairy police trying murder him!
This story was very enjoyable. It started out with Artemis and his bodyguard and closet companion, Butler, sitting at a table in a café. A man was meeting them there to tell them where they might find a real fairy. He found the man on the internet from his mansion in Ireland. He made the man lead him to old fairy sprite and made her a proposition. Her health for all of the information about the fairies. I would give this book four stars out of five. It builds up a lot of suspense by switching points of view throughout the characters. I don’t really find any flaws with the novel, but it dragged on suspenseful moments and made me think to myself, “Get on with it!”
Reviewed by: Shadow Slicer 4596
