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And so the high-flying and rollicking supernatural heist adventures
continue this week with book three in Eoin Colfer’s Artemis Fowl series: The
Eternity Code.
Favouring the heist genre even more than its predecessors, The Eternity Code chronicles Artemis’
construction of a fantastical super computer made from stolen fairy tech, which
accidentally ends up in the hands of the maniacal megalomaniac Jon Spiro. The
bad news for Artemis gets worse when the LEP arrive at his door demanding an
explanation as to why their security sensors have ‘pinged’, alerting them of
human detection topside. Artemis must now come up with his most ingenious plan
yet in order to retrieve the stolen tech and save the Fairy world from human
discovery.
This is the most thrilling and dramatic instalment of the Artemis stories yet. Taking the shape of
a full-on proper heist novel, this is the book where Colfer further explores
the intricacies and emotional makeup of his characters and assaults them with
hardcore insta-grow fertiliser.
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There are various segments or chapters within chapters that are excerpts
from Artemis’ diary that properly give readers a glimpse into the true
character of this lad. As a budding adolescent, now is the time that Artemis is
emotionally impressionable -a hard, cold touch of realism coming into the
fantastical mix- and it’s very interesting to see how Colfer depicts his main
character’s emotional journey.
As I mentioned before, this is a much darker and more dramatic story
that its predecessors -as most third instalments tend to be- and it’s fair to
say, without spoilers, that the reader might just be put through a cycle in the
emotional wringer. We’re not talking Harry
Potter dramatic, but getting there.
All in all The Eternity Code
is a great continuation of a fresh and fun young adult series, filled with
action, suspense, drama, comedy, and some very satisfying emotional payoffs.
Author: Eoin Colfer, 2003
Published: Puffin Books,
Australia Ltd, 2003
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