(Artemis Fowl, Book 3)

From Amazon.co.uk Review:

"The third instalment of high-tech, criminal whiz-kid adventures set in the fairy-magic-filled world of Master Artemis Fowl may be reassuringly familiar but it is also bulging with author Eoin Colfer's trademark wit and thrilling seat-of-the-dwarf-pants adventure. Following on from Artemis's opening encounter with the fairy underworld in Artemis Fowl and its thumping sequel Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Encounter, The Eternity Code takes the books' eponymous young anti-hero, who with each successive adventure turns out to be a little less bad after all, on his most dangerous mission yet.

Artemis and his bodyguard Butler have set up a meeting in Chicago with dangerous international businessman Jon Spiro. In his latest eager attempt to make money, using a priceless futuristic cube of purloined Fairy gadgetry that can do just about anything, Artemis has underestimated Spiro and arrived at the rendezvous under-prepared. Big mistake. It is an ambush, and though Artemis escapes with his life, Butler is mortally wounded.

The cube may be lost but Artemis refuses to accept his friend's demise and quickly deep freezes Butler in the restaurant kitchen. He calls on the only people he knows who might be able to get him back--Holly Short of the subterranean Fairy police and her race's super-advanced technology. Holly and Artemis must find a way to bring Butler back from the dead and retrieve the lost Eternity Cube that could change the balance of power between humans and fairies forever. It is a Herculean task and the price exacted upon Artemis for such assistance is very high indeed."

I loved this book (as I did the rest of the series)!

Release planned for Tuesday, March 09, 2004 at Saint Cinnamon Cafe -- 551 King St in Fredericton, New Brunswick Canada.

Will be released at 7:00 p.m. during the monthly Meet-Up.

Yay, the third in the series! Now I can read books two and three right after one another...Good thing I went to the meetup tonight. Thanks again Jaguar!

I'll pass this on to RealBookWorm when I'm done so she can read the whole series too.

Another cute book in this series. Quite a light, fast read and I enjoyed it. Artemis is certainly an interesting (and brilliant) kid. This is one of those books that is written for young people but can appeal to those of us quite a bit past our teens too :-)

Though Artemis' plots are usually quite devilish, it's always clear that deep down he's not evil. And that comes out again near the end fo this book. You can't help liking the kid. This book was ended in such a way to leave it open for a sequel (which I'm sure there either is or soon will be). I may just have to read it.

This will go on to RealBookWorm as soon as we can arrange to get together.

I got this from MissQ on Nov 20th but just now decided to do my journal entries. I haven't read the first two Artemis Fowl books so this one will go on my TBR pile until I read them.

Thanks MissQ!

I haven't even tried to read this book because I couldn't get through the first one in the series. I just don't find Artemis Fowl that interesting.

I'm going to take the three books I have and release them at the 2007 BC Convention in Charleston SC and hope someone else will like them more than I did. :)

RELEASE NOTES:

Released "somewhere cold" as part of the 2007 BC Convention Reverse Scavenger Hunt. I wanted to keep the three Artemis Fowl books together as much as possible.