Artemis Fowl
The Arctic Incident
by Eoin Colfer When Holly Short of the LEPrecon (Lower Elements Police Reconnaisance) catches goblins with illegal softnose guns that were supposed to have been destroyed, she is alarmed. When she discovers that the softnoses are battery powered, she is even more alarmed. With the batteries as evidence of human meddling, she assumes that Artemis Fowl is the culprit. She convinces her superiors to kidnap Artemis Fowl to see what he knows.
Meanwhile, Artemis has problems of his own. He is attending a fancy boarding school which bores him. He has just been sent an urgent email, though; a clip of his father. Artemis must save his father from his kidnappers. To do that, he needs to travel to arctic Russia (hence the title).
When the faeries kidnap Artemis, they are startled to discover that he is not the culprit. Strangly, upon this discovery they decide to take him into their confidence and ask for his (and Butler's) assistance in solving the matter. This point really bugs me. I mean, if you arrest a guy for something and it turns out he didn't do it, does that mean you trust him? No way! If he's under enough suspision that you arrest him, he's under enough suspision that you distrust him. Anyways, Artemis agrees on the condition that afterwards they will take him to Murmansk, in the Artic Circle.
Unfortunately, the human who supplied the batteries to the goblins has been under mesmer(hypnotism), so that finding him only shows that there is some faerie mastermind behind this plot. Goblins are stupid, so our protagonists have a mystery. They go to Murmansk to find Artemis Fowl, Sr., and then they find that their faerie weapons won't work: sabotage. To make matters worse, there's a B'wa Kell group shooting at them (the B'wa Kell are a goblin gang). OF course, our heroes pull through, and now they know that as their weapons are malfunctioning, so must the weapons of the entire LEP.
There's a conspiracy afoot, and now it is revealed. Opal Koboi is plotting to take over the world. And of course, our protagonists stop her, through many adventures.
The second book in the Artemis Fowl series plays heavily on the first. So many of the characters in this book are reintroduced that Colfer might as well assume that his reader is familiar with the first book and left out the introductions of the characters as repetitive. I strongly suggest that you read the first book first. I did, but not so recently that I can review it now. Do I have any readers who would like to review the first Artemis Fowl book?
Happy reading.
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