Artemis Fowl (Artemis Fowl #1)

Reader reviewed by Stella

Artemis Fowl is a certified genius who uses his brain for somewhat less than savoury things. At only 12, Artemis is the first human to discover the secret world that lives right below our feet, the world of Faerie. His evil plans come to a head when he kidnaps an LEP officer, Holly Short.

An intelligent and fast-paced book sutable for all ages!

Reader reviewed by aaron

This book is really good. It is about a rich genius kid who sets out to find fairies. He kidnaps one and holds her for ransom. But what he gets is troll trouble among other things. Very Good.

Reader reviewed by AAref

I would recommend this series to anyone. I think it is interesting enough to attract anyone who attempts to it. I am still not done reading the eternity code , but it just keeps getting better and better.

Reader reviewed by Flak Monkey

After reading this book in one sitting, I think I've finally discovered my true reading level. I may not be that young, but as I've been told repeatedly that I've yet to grow up, I think I can easily qualify as a "young" adult reader.

This is a book that I had a lot of fun reading. I even busted the code (believe me - not a hard task) and started deciphering the code at the bottom of each page. I'm sitting here with a soft pencil, decoding like a cub scout with a secret decoder ring.

Eoin Colfer is a genius, with a vivid imagination and a wonderfully wicked sense of humor. He has produced a well thought out novel, nicely bound and presented, somehow combining a brilliant 12 year old millionaire criminal mastermind, a loyal butler named Butler who just happens to be a killing machine, a dwarf with a mighty forceful tunneling action, a techie wise-cracking centaur who can give Ian Fleming's "Q" a run for his money, a tough military-type girl scout fairy and her old fashioned boss, a havoc wrecking troll, and a support cast of dozens.

It's got magic, intrigue, deception, kidnapping, blackmail, computers, weapons, code-breaking, violence, and projectile flatulence and can't be faulted for the sheer brilliance of the scheming.

As soon as I finish my decoding, I'm off to book 2, "The Arctic Incident". Your kids will love this one, and so will you.

Reader reviewed by Great Book

This book was great. I made many of my fairy tale dreams realistic. Aretmis was the greatest character to put up against the fairy underworld. With his smarts, money, and child like mind, it kind of made him invincable. The way they mixed all of the different fairy things together, the pixies, the trolls, and their weapons, all of it was just perfect to me.

Reader reviewed by chatterbox891

I really sceptical when I checked out this book from the library. I was like hmm, well this isn't going to be a fun read. But I was really wrong. This book was GREAT.
Artemis Fowl is a rich, genius at only 13 years old. He hatches a plan to steal fairy gold from (who else) the fairies. Will his dirty scheme work?

Reader reviewed by dan

a boy-criminal named artemis fowl has found about a race unknown to other humans-the fairy.he plans to actualy kidnap a fairy so he could request enormous size of gold in exchange for her freedom..
that is the storyline of this book.despite some might not expect much,believe me there IS much.
this book has unmatched humor and interesting story that is completely different from ones found in other books of this genre.perfect mix of criminal and magic.i recomend both this book and its sequels to the readers of all ages.

Reader reviewed by iki

It is an action-ish book. It is very detial oriented. i loved it. if you like action and advenure with mistery you will really like this book. It is a long, fun, and exciting book to read.

Reader reviewed by Spartanx1x

This book surprises everyone about Artemis Fowl. New readers to the artemis fowl series should be surprised at Artemis' intelligence. They might think he is in over his head but veteran readers of the series would know better. Artemis takes on highly sophisticated fairies at the age of 12.

Quite Humourous...

Reader reviewed by Spartan0

The first book in the Artemis Fowl series. Readers will be surprised at his intelligence. Arty sets off on an inter-species money making including holding an armed fairy officer hostage. The fairies unfortunately don't like this and start to think of ways to outsmart him. This is a battle at Arty's doorstep, literally.