“Yet another hit in this series--Eoin Colfer can't miss! What's always been great about these characters is that they grow and change, and the time paradox mentioned in the title is what causes Artemis to have to come face to face with exactly how much he's changed since meeting the fairies and transforming his morals and his family's life. Getting a glimpse of who he used to be is humbling for him . . . and cool. And I really liked how Holly, my favorite character, acted in this book. There was a scene in which she really didn't know what to do, and that was really neat to see her just at a loss like that.
As always I translated the coded messages along the bottoms of the pages, too. If anyone's curious--this is NOT a spoiler or anything because it's just a story extra, not part of the plot--the coded message is a record of correspondence between an imprisoned villain and a fairy police official. Good old Opal Koboi is asking to be let out of prison on account of her genius. And Vinyáya's like "As if!" (Haa, she actually wrote "Dream on, Koboi.") In the coded correspondence, Vinyáya sarcastically said she was going to drop everything and send the shuttle to collect Opal, and Opal believed her because she's not very good at detecting sarcasm. When she realized she'd been had, she subjected the commander to a long string of insanity discussing how the seahorse models she'd made by hand out of chewed cardboard had in some cases been broken in her rush to pack. She wrote in detail what parts of which seahorses had broken off (yes, she named them), and finished it up with a threat about what she was gonna do once she got out. While I was reading that, I was thinking, "Am I translating this incorrectly, or is Opal really this insane?" Yeah, she's that insane. :D”
swankivy wrote this review Wednesday, July 1 2009.
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