Artemis Fowl (Eoin Colfer) - Page 9

I really liked these books, I've read the first two at least a dozen times. I didn't like the most recent one (The Lost Colony) too much though, I tend to like the originals in a series best. Maybe it's just personal bias but it seems like the sequels often tend to start feeding into the franchise and are written for the money more than anything. While I can respect that an author does need to put food on the table, I prefer the first few books in a series simply because it seems like they more often are true to the book itself instead of a publisher's pocketbook.

There are currently six books (the 6th being The Time Paradox), and there is a 7th (The Atlantis Complex) being planned.

There are two suspected plots for it:

1. Artemis somehow joins the present-day Opal in her cell in Atlantis, and begrudgingly returns to his criminal ways at Opal's hand.

2. Artemis develops a disease called the "Atlantis Complex", which causes him to develop multiple personalities. One of them is entirely nice, willing to use his intellect to help everybody.

Yeah I have to agree, if those are the plots to the next books... well to be fair, I thought The Lost Colony was pretty bad. It was tolerable but it wasn't anything that made me want to read another book in the series like the first few were. That sounds like it'd make The Lost Colony sound like a really really good book aaaaaaannd... well... I wouldn't be following the series for much longer, put it that way.

I have to agree, I disliked the addition of Minerva, especially giving her effectively the same role Holly has - a remotely possible love interest, but obviously not going anywhere any time soon. If you're going to introduce multiple love interests, at least make them somewhat different. Minerva's another genius kid that you learn very little about other than Artemis thinks she's pretty (which can be said of Juliet and virtually all the major female characters shy of his mother), Holly's a fairy that has had his attention for quite some time but romantic interest likewise is fairly ambigious about. You really can't tell where interest actually lies, or if there's any at all, so I don't think there was much of a point to adding yet another possible love interest seeing as he's done absolutely nothing with the ones he's already got in the story, especially since he also does absolutely nothing with Minerva short of make it clear that he is in fact around 16 and has hormones now.

I didn't realise the Time Paradox one had been released. The problem is if I've any hope of understanding it I'm going to have to read the other five again

When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle.
Then I realised God doesn’t work that way, so I stole
one and prayed for forgiveness.

These are scheduled covers for the 7th AF book:

Looks good, did you really have to post such a big image though?

Sorry for the huge image. When I first copied it over to Neoseeker, I didn't realize it would be that big.