Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer

Hello reader! For today I thought I'd bring you somewhere exciting. A book where man meets fairy. That's right, Artemis Fowl. Now, Artemis Fowl is amazing in so many ways. I cannot wait to tell you about it. 

Artemis Fowl is a 12-year-old criminal mastermind who is missing his father and his mother is lacking her sanity. He has only one friend, his guard Butler, who helps him in all of his evil doing. Artemis has finally discovered that humans and everything you know about are not alone. Deep underground by the Earth's core are the fairies. Where dwarves, elves and pixies live in secrecy but function just like mankind. This is we're you'll meet Holly Short, the one and only female in the entire police force  and it is her personal duty to be the best she can ever be and not fail. But so far she keeps getting caught doing the exact opposite.  One night a mission goes wrong and Holly and all the other fairies in her squad are punished. Angry, Holly decides she needs to take a fly topside alone and  refresh her magic. And that's when Artemis captures her in hopes she can restore his mother's sanity and run experiments on her. And Artemis knows every elf's weakness...gold. It is now up to Holly to fight her own way out and  trying to escape with the members of the LEPrecon fighting for her back from Artemis's clutches. But if Artemis knows their weakness and he is a criminal mastermind it's going to be much harder for the LEPrecon to free Holly than they expected. 

     This book includes magic, science fiction and unforgettable characters who you'll love more and more throughout the entire eight novels. These books are action packed and humorous (but not all humor you can find in Percy Jackson. It includes puns and some silly references that younger readers might not get) and you'll watch Artemis grow up and become the formidable man he is destined to be and how Holly Short gets tied up in it all. 

    The first book was a bit slow and it took me time to get into it but the rest of the series was fantastic with Colfer's creative ideas, shocking antagonists and surprising plans Artemis creates in the beautiful world Colfer provides. I really, really enjoyed this series and when you reach the last book I hope you feel like you grew up with Artemis even if you read the entire eightnovels* in less than a month and a half. Like Rowling, Colfer gives us important morals regarding friendships and reaching adult-hood. 

* Artemis Fowl, The Arctic Incident, The Eternity Code, The Opal Deception, The Lost Colony (my favorite), The Time Paradox and The Atlantis Complex 

 

  I hope you found my review helpful and enjoy the books  as much as I did! 

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The Cursed Child by J.K Rowling

So, it's finally here. The eighth Harry Potter book and reader, I'm sorry to say but I hope you have not bought it. To be honest, I enjoyed the book. We got to see Harry, Ron, Hermione, Ginny and Draco all grown up and with children and having jobs and leading different lives but it wasn't what I WANTED. I wanted J.K Rowling to write a story but as you know it's a play and she had help with it from Jack Thorne and John Tiffany.

      As you know, the story is a play. One thing first, plays are much easier to write than stories. It's just dialogue and working out what people's actions are. Stories, on the other hand are much, much harder. I feel like J.K Rowling wrote a premise and handed it to Thorne and Tiffany and said, "write me the eighth Harry Potter book as a play. We'll see where you are next week." And they left and wrote the story. I feel like this entire thing was just to make more money unlike all the other books which were for fun and the readers too. Because, when you look at it why is it a play instead of a book? Because Rowling wouldn't have to write it and she knows so very well that all her readers can tell what her writing's like. And then everyone will buy the book and poof! Rowling had thousands and thousands or more pounds in her pocket. Now, I'm not saying ANY of this is true. It's just my opinion!

     Another thing I didn't like was that the story did not match the summary. The story was better than the summary because it had time travel and mild excitement but it wasn't the J.K Rowling story I wanted. The tale does not properly start until Albus's fourth year and the scenes until then are practically on the train, a scene at Hogwarts and then the year is over. It is repeated until the fourth year.

     Also, unlike all the other Harry Potter books which had morals that taught us stuff like "be brave" and "as long as you set your mind to something you can do anything" or "you need to always stick with your friends to...". In Harry Potter we get to either grow up with the characters or watch them grow up (or both). To me, Albus and Scorpious are flat characters. They did not grow because the only moral we learned was "don't steal illegal stuff because they're illegal for a good reason" and "don't screw around with your parents' past because you'll make things even worse".  However, if you are so determined to read it and have not yet I suggest you borrow the novel from a friend or get it at a local library because it isn't worth wasting your money on.

All right, I'm sorry I had to discourage reading you from something but I PROMISE to come back with more positive reviews!

Remember to keep reading and be nice to others,
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