Artemis Fowl, The Opal Deception by Eoin Colfer. Back to the teenagers aisle (and no, I have no idea how to pronounce the author's name). This book is the fourth in a series about Artemis Fowl, the teenage villain. This is good solid fantasy -- fairies, elves, centaurs and a great farting dwarf character. This series is "Harry Potter" level good. They move fast. They're clever. They're extremely well written.
In this episode, Opal Koboi, the renegade fairy, who we met in the last book, has been avoiding jail time by being in a coma for over a year. She manages to escape and starts her plot to expose the underworld to the human world assuming, of course, that the humans will destroy the underworld races and she will rise to the top and rule the human world.
Our heros, Holly Short, the fairy soldier, and Artemis, the brilliant human teen, team up again to defeat the bad guys. Interestingly, Artemis is starting to grow up a little and, throughout the book, tries to decide whether to go straight and become a good guy. As always, with Colfer, Artemis's decision is a little off and funny.
These books are great reads. If you like fantasy or have a teenager who likes to read, definitely try these. They're filled with action, humor and are just fun to read.
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I read part of maybe the first of the Artemis Fowl books with CJ and was disappointed we didn't read the whole thing together. I'm not a science fiction person, as you know, but I got into it as it was a page-turner.
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