Artemis Fowl: Creative but Confusing



Artemis Fowl is the first book of the series and it’s about a 12 year old genius trying to restore his family’s fortune, which was lost by his dad. Artemis’s dad was a criminal trying to sell cola and took his ship of cola to Russia but got attacked by the Russian mafia. The ship sank and the whole crew was lost…or were they? Because if the book goes into detail about how a character who we haven’t met died, then they’re probably actually alive and will come into the story/series later.

But anyway, Artemis is trying to become rich again mostly so that he and his mom can stay at their fancy estate which has been passed down over centuries with their family of butlers (who have the last name Butler).


Oh and this is a fantasy book. I was thinking that it was sort of sci-fi by the cover and overall vibe but then it started talking about fairies and dwarves which was when I started getting confused.


I mentioned Artemis is a genius, so here’s his plan to earn back the fortune. He already has “the book” of fairy history/secrets which he got from a sprite after searching for a while. He’s trying to kidnap a fairy while they do “the ritual” which is a power-restoring process where you go outside during the full moon and find a seed from a specific oak tree and bury it. He wants to hold the fairy hostage at the house and return her in exchange for fairy gold.


This book was pretty hard to follow. It kept switching from the fairy and human sides and a lot was going on. There was a dwarf named Mulch who was trying to tunnel underneath the house to rescue the fairy (Holly). But at the same time these fairy commanders were planning to bomb the house after they rescued her, which sounds simple enough, but then there were a bunch of other scenes with the fairies and Butlers battling and a random troll that shows up. I think it would be clearer as a movie, and they did make one! It got pretty bad reviews though so it’s probably not worth watching.


There were some pretty creative ideas in this book though. It explains that leprechauns aren’t actual creatures with pots of gold under the rainbow (though they do have gold), they’re fairies part of the Lower Elements Police Reconnaissance (LEPrecon). It also says that what humans think leprechauns look like (green coat, hat, buckled shoes) is based on the LEPrecons’ old uniforms. 


Maybe I just don’t have the patience to try to understand everything, so if you do this might be worth reading. I liked some parts, but I won’t be reading the rest of the series.


-Janny

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