Tag: Artemis Fowl

Artemis Fowl (2001)

by Derelict Space Sheep on December 11, 2024 in 42 Word Reviews • 0 Comments

Artemis Fowl

by Eoin Colfer (Viking, 2001); audiobook read by Gerry O’Brien (Puffin, 2013)

The fairy world is imaginatively realised and affords a new set of (magical) parameters within which Colfer can manifest Artemis’s ingenious criminal scheming. O’Brien’s audiobook reading goes some way towards papering over such writerly cracks as blatant tell-don’t-show and one-dimensional, stereotyped characters.

Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception

by Derelict Space Sheep on March 25, 2019 in 42 Word Reviews • 0 Comments

Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception

by Eoin Colfer (Puffin, 2005); audiobook read by Nathaniel Parker (AudioGO, 2011)

An engaging enough caper, albeit one in which the Fairy People take the lion’s share and Irish boy genius and criminal mastermind Artemis Fowl remains frustratingly just off centre stage. Colfer’s freewheeling plot, though clever, seems oddly neglectful of its titular character.