Note: This article was used for my review task a few months ago.
By Eoin Colfer
About the book:
This book revolves around a genius 12-year-old boy call Artemis Fowl. In order to restore his family’ fortune [that was lost by coka cola] fast and furious, he hatched a scheme . If his dangerous scheme of stealing gold from the underground fairies succeeded , the history of human mankind [provided that one day that human knows the existence of fairies] will be rewritten and he will be a curse to LEP as long as he lives. Of course let us not forget the amount of gold he will be getting. His so call “evil plan” is to get his hands on the fairy book , containing history and secrets of the civilisation but unfortunately written in Gnommish, unintelligible using normal human language. Oh yeah, he is going to kidnap a fairy too. Impossible? Read to find out how clever the guy is or how furious LEP was.
What Leanne thinks about this book:
I think the book is extremely entertaining,even though I thought of the book as being too “science-fiction” the moment I looked at the synopsis and also the book cover. I changed my mind the moment I started reading the first chapter, with all the excitement going on , it is hardly what I had expected after reading the cover.
I love the character of Holly Short, she is someone that I find her ancient in my modern world full of gender equal statements. Her job is like no other from any of us, somewhat similar to police or in American language “FBI”. On earth’s surface, jobs that once belonged to fields of men have opened their doors today pilots,doctors,professors,ect. In the story she is still trying to do something unusual for a girl with her boss breathing down her neck,treating her unequally. I felt so relieved in the end when I read about how her boss truly thinks about her.
After reading the book, I figured out the reason behind its popularity. The book is set on fantasy and also bits of sad reality , it was also the same reason why Harry Potter was so popular among the “mud people”. Fantasy. Something that that we are losing in this world full of computer games. The ability to think creatively. I also find this book questioning the existence of creatures that we believed to have been created from fantasy long time ago,do they really exists?
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