by Eoin Colfer
I feel like this story had way more potential than it actually achieved. For the most part, I enjoyed it, but it was definitely lacking. Especially in the writing. Colfer really likes to tell the emotions and backstory immediately after meeting a character, and he shoves characterization down the...
I picked this book up quite a while ago, but never got around to reading it until I decided to give it away. I'm not sure why I never read it, because everything about this seems like it would be to my taste. I really enjoyed the Artemis Fowl series, and laugh like a loon whenever I read them, so I ...
Eoin Colfer shows once again that, when freed of the burden of churning out another Fowl novel, he can write entertaining, imaginative fiction still. There are flashes of humour and a somewhat unlikely setting, but the reader is drawn in to this generally serious tale of invention and redemption. ...
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