Artemis Fowl and the Lost Colony: 5 |
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 | Keep it simple, keep it fast and keep it jokey: Perfect entertainment for the mid-teens (and older).
I've enjoyed all the Artemis Fowl novels to date - and this latest, Artemis Fowl and the Lost Colony, is no exception.
For those not in the know, Artemis is a teenage genius with a penchant for crime, and a big - very BIG - minder called Butler. He's been annoying the hell out of the fairy kingdom for years, although, having saved each other from disaster more than once, they have the sort of a love-hate relationship neither side would admit to: Holly, ex-LEPrecon (the fairy police), is his principle contact and Foley (the centaur) the technical wizardry supplier - oh, and there is a singularly repulsive character called Mulch, the perfect manifestation of all younger teenage toilet humour jokes - what comes out of his backside on a regular basis shall not soil these pages, even though it might fertilize the ground (and pollute the air).
In this episode Artemis starts off demon ... read more.
Written by Eoin Colfer.
Published 03 May 2007.
Published by Puffin.
rrp £6.99.
400 pages Paperback.
ISBN: 0141320796
ISBN-13: 9780141320793 | |
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