Reviewed by ammaarah on
★ I enjoyed Artemis Fowl and the Atlantis Complex a little more than Artemis Fowl and the Time Paradox.
★ However, I feel like Colfer wrote Artemis Fowl and the Atlantis Complex just for the sake of writing another Artemis Fowl book.
★ There are some interesting ideas in Artemis Fowl and the Atlantis Complex, but the execution of these ideas are lackluster.
★ Artemis Fowl is suffering from the Atlantis Complex, a fairy illness that has symptoms of paranoia, suspicion, multiple personality disorder and OCD. It's terrible to witness Artemis realise what's happening to him and he can't do anything about it. However, towards the end, his mental state is forgotten.
★ I miss the clever, patronising criminal genius.
★ Orion is too much and it's hilarious.
★ I love the secondary characters - Holly, Butler, Foaly and Mulch - but they don't seem like themselves.
★ I'm glad that Juliet's back.
★ The villain is not so black-and-white, but the way things end is anticlimactic. I can't believe that Turnball would give up so easily after all that he's done.
★ There are loose plot points and things that weren't mentioned in previous Artemis Fowl books came out of nowhere such as the dark fairy magic and runes.
★ The Artemis Fowl series has lost its fairy magic.
Reading updates
- 1 February, 2019: Started reading
- 2 February, 2019: Finished reading
- 4 February, 2019: Reviewed
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