“This series features the young genius millionaire, Artemis Fowl, whose goal at the beginning is to steal enough riches to make up the money his father once lost. His plan this time around is to hatch a scheme to steal gold from the fairies. Most people insist they don't exist, but the young Mr. Fowl not only believes they exist; he has a plan to capture one. At which point he will, of course, force her to take him to the gold. This story portrays fairies in an unusual way: For instance, they have evolved and progressed through the years just like humans have, and have their own armies and cities and whatnot. (This is a far cry from most children's fairy tales, which usually feature fairies behaving much as they did in the folklore of hundreds of years ago.) Also, the first book has a quirk: If you can decode the fairy language, you can read another little tale that is printed in code along the bottoms of the pages of the whole book. (I did that.) What's this about phlegm? Oh, and I have a crush on Holly Short. She's an awesome career-military fairy.”
swankivy wrote this review Tuesday, June 30 2009.
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