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A new Artemis Fowl story must count as a publishing event. Here we find Artemis with his wings clipped. His memory has been wiped of knowledge of the Fairy People. Even worse, he seems to have lost his propensity for criminality and has leanings towards altruism instead. Meanwhile, down in the Lower Elements, the evil pixie Opal Koboi lies in what appears to be a coma. Yet, despite a twenty-four hour watch, she escapes and sets out on her quest for world domination. Artemis and Holly Short, with Butler the bodyguard and Mulch Diggums the flatulent dwarf, are the only ones who can foil her.
I wish I could be less stinting in my praise for Artemis Fowl and all his works because they represent a real imaginative feat: logically complicated plots, awesomely high technology at the service of the story and not the other way round as so often in books of this type, excellent use of comic hyperbole and a gift for breakneck story-telling. I hurried along to the end, yet finished thinking that great read though it had been, somehow it wasn't a real page-turner and hadn't given me the feeling of involvement reserved for the best narrative. Perhaps that's not what Colfer is aiming for and ingenuity rather than inspiration is what he's after.
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