Artemis Fowl by Eoin ColferMy rating: 1 of 5 stars
Eoin Colfer tries a teenage attempt of a Terry Pratchett novel with plenty of apathy towards his characters. Any hint of sympathy is automatically put on hold by a plot device; so we never truly learn what the characters are thinking; even though there’s plenty of situations when the characters are alone. How a teenager is supposed to sympathise with a teenage millionaire with a highly trained guerrilla butler; I’ve no idea. And then we have the fairies. A society that has decided to live in exile for fear of being discovered; but armed to the teeth with the latest technology; yet the only magic that they are capable of performing is for healing purposes. There are some creatures with very odd abilities; but these only seem to litter the storyline with toilet humour. We also have confusing plot devices; if the fairies have successfully stopped time then why is time allowed to continue on a video feed? It’s all very confusing with a weak conclusion which is way too simple.
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