howardh's Full Review: Eoin Colfer, Jean-Francois Menard, Giovanni Rigano...
I just finished the new "just like Harry Potter" book, Artemis Fowl, in which we learn how a 12-year-old scion of an Irish criminal family extorts half a ton of gold from fairies by kidnapping one of their agents.
I read through it in three and a half hours (I clocked it). It's certainly interesting enough, but its POV -- written from the perspective of the future -- allows our author to insert several not-so-subtle hints about capers in future volumes in the series. Add annoying hieroglyphic secret messages at the bottom of each page. If you decipher the messages, you're entered in the drawing. The winner of the drawing gets to appear in the movie!
Oh, yes, the movie. Did I mention the movie? The whole book has a terrifically cinematic feel. Lots of gadgets, lots of fight sequences, larger-than-life (and smaller-than-life) characters galore.
For me, the bottom line was: I didn't like the title character very much, but I didn't hate him enough either.
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