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Book Review By An Nguyen
Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer

Artemis Fowl is a twelve year old criminal mastermind. Thanks to his father the Fowls have lost their billionaire status vitually overnight. Now, Artemis must come up with a scheme ingenius enough to regain the lost money.

So Artemis decides to attempt to steal gold from the fairy people, thanks to the information he got from the internet.
Atemis then tricks a sprite into letting him see its copy of "the book", the book that all fairies must abide by.

With infomation from "the book" Atremis kipnaps Captain Holly Short of the LEPrecon police squad, and ransoms her for a ton of fairy gold.


Plot & Themes
Tone of book - cynical or dry-wit
FANTASY or SCIENCE FICTION? - fantasy story on current Earth
Coming of age Yes
Youngster becomes - a thief
Tech./$$$/Info hunt Yes
Stealing/recovering/destroying
Family relations Yes
Descript. of chases or violence - 30 %
planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 30 %
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 20 %
Descript. of society, phenomena (tech), places - 20 %

Main Character
Identity: - Male
Profession/status:
Age: - a teen
Really unusual traits?

Main Adversary
Identity: - Male
Age: - a teen
Profession/status:
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in: - almost none
How sensitive is this character?
Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Genius (really!)

Setting
Terrain
Earth setting: - distant future - current (early 21st century)
Takes place on Earth? Yes

Writing Style
Accounts of torture and death? - no torture/death
scientific jargon? (SF only) - a lot of techical jargon
How much dialogue? - little dialog
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