Artemis Fowl Chapter Summary

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Book review -Artemis Fowl

This book is set in many different places but the book starts out in Ho Chi Minh City. The next and most significant place we arrive at is Haven, the “New York” for the Fairies. The most noteworthy place we read of is Fowl Manor, the very place where almost all of the action of this book takes place in. Of the many major characters the main character would have to be Artemis Fowl, a teenage mastermind who figured out how to steal heaps of gold from “The People” a group of mythical creatures (i.e. Fairies, Gnomes, Sprites etc.). Artemis’ father had been a criminal mastermind before being kidnapped by the Russian Mafia. Artemis is a very antisocial child whose only friend is his bodyguard, Butler. (A description …show more content…

The problem is that of Captain Holly Short of the LepRecon, the police force of the People. Captain Short is abducted by young Artemis while she tries to perform a ceremonious ritual so that she can regain her drained magic. This is a good indication of the climax because of the fact that Holly has been captured letting Artemis use her as bait. Threatening the LepRecon with exposure they are forced to give Artemis the gold in exchange for Captain Short. But making the critical mistake of undermining Artemis, the LepRecon decides to try and send in an advanced S.W.A.T. team along with a troll. Butler took care of the S.W.A.T. team while holly softened up and did the troll in. Artemis, using a unique radar that fixated itself to any stealth object, knew that the Lep was coming and stashed the gold where even magic couldn’t get it out. Although butler was wounded by the troll he was able to take down a second S.W.A.T. team and steal their equipment making him nearly invincible. In the end the negotiation was that artemis let holly go for DOUBLE the amount of gold that was the original …show more content…

Not only that but I also think that it is suspenseful because there are pages that are full of non sense in the middle of the “good” parts. Eoin Colfer’s style of writing is a very informative style because he tells every little detail of the story. This is true in this excerpt “...the rubber seal yielded with a hiss, the pod was definitely not built for comfort. The interior looked as if 3,000,000 tourists had seen to that every square inch was covered in rot...”. If I were to rate this book on a scale from one to ten I’d rate it at a 5. I would give it a five because it started getting boring. Reading all of the stuff in between the action really made the book a Boring Suspense Thriller. I liked the action parts where the Lep would pull out there lasers and try and shoot butler, just before their heads got smashed by the troll. There weren’t enough fighting scenes where Artemis was in actual danger because he would always have some electronic thing monitoring the area to make sure that there were no bad guys. In action I would give this book a 3/10 because there weren’t any real big shootouts. In graphics id give it a 7/10 because of the totally intense descriptions. In “game play” id give it a 4/10 cuz the game would be too hard with all of the smart stuff you’d have to do. But overall it was an O.K. book but it wasn’t my

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