Book Review #1 – Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony
Felicia Taylor
Matt Thomas
English 9
03-28-08
Book Review #1 – Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony
This is the fifth book in the Artemis Fowl series and follows the same characters through two different ‘worlds’ of sorts. Artemis Fowl is a criminal mastermind, he is also a teenager. The series starts when he is twelve years old and this installment ends when he is eighteen, or should be. In the first book Artemis Fowl discovered a world of magical creatures living in the Earth’s crust and successfully kidnapped one of them; Holly Short. They get over the whole kidnapping thing and end up becoming friends throughout the series.
Artemis finds out that there is a race of demons that live on an island that has been lifted out of time; this is the lost colony. Every couple of months there is a glitch in the time spell that holds the island out of the present and sends a demon back to Earth. Artemis Fowl discovers this glitch and goes searching for a demon. Through a series of stakeouts he finds a demon but another person catches it before he can.
He contacts the fairy world through a fairy communicator. The elf Holly, the dwarf Mulch Diggums, the pixie Doodah Day, and Artemis’ bodyguard Butler agree to help in his retrieval of the demon. They find out that the person who caught the demon was a child genius who was about a year younger than Artemis. She and her helpers finally come to their senses after Artemis has bested them and they end up saving the lost colony and bringing it back to Earth.
The most noticeable thing about this book, to me, is the energy in it. The plot, the characters, the dialogue; everything about it has energy written all over it. This book was always interesting and kept my mind engaged and entertained throughout its entirety. Also, the creativity of the different elements of this book amazed me. Such as the different races of fairies and the idea of how they came to be. Eoin Colfer has pushed fairy tale creatures to a whole new level for me.
I didn’t want to put this book (or any of the other books in the series) down and ended up reading the entire thing in less than two days. I found myself getting excited for the characters even though I knew the story wasn’t real. I’m a sucker for fiction books and this has to be one of my favorite stories next to the all-popular Harry Potter, Inheritance, and (guilty pleasure) Twilight series. I will most definitely recommend this series to anyone and I will also read them again later on in life.
