Phoebe Jones

Phoebe JonesA thrilling conclusion to this great story.

Phoebe JonesIt doesn't quite live up to the original series (which, it is relevant, is literally my favorite book series of all time). One of the things that made the original books great is that they were completely unrealistic because they were about a twelve-year-old boy doing completely adult things with the added fantasy element of the fairies.<br/><br/>Lord Teddy Bleedham-Drye, Duke of Scilly, and Sister Jeronima are not realistic human villains. They are, quite honestly, completely ridiculous villains. I didn't get enough fairy. I didn't get enough Fowl. I just...this book was just a silly book. It wasn't everything I loved about Artemis Fowl. <br/><br/>It's basically the same plot as The Eternity Code (eccentric billionaire kidnaps a Fowl to get his hands on something fairy-related). The Eternity Code was GOOD. It had this crazy, complex plan and we got to watch it play out from a bunch of different angles. This never felt high-stakes for me the way The Eternity Code did. Even if you take into account that AF was supposed to be a trilogy, so The Eternity Code needed to ramp things up a lot, this never even reached the level of the original Artemis Fowl. <br/><br/>What I like about Artemis Fowl is that it never felt like I was reading a children's book. This felt like a children's book. Maybe that's what it's supposed to be?