A lot of people weren’t happy with the way that JK Rowling
ended her Harry Potter series. In some ways, I was one of them. I don’t like
endings to epic series, they don’t always live up to my expectations. The same
could be said for the last book of the Artemis Fowl series. Everything in this
book wrapped up loose ends, except for a few, but there were just some things
that drove me absolutely crazy…
But I’m getting ahead of myself. In the last book, Artemis
went into treatment for his Atlantis Complex. When this book starts, Artemis is
dealing with his last therapy session when all hell breaks loose, again. This
time around, Opal is at it again, or so it seems. Two masked dwarfs take Opal
from the past – the one who came through in book 6 – hostage and threaten to
kill her if the LEP don’t release the current Opal from Atlantis. The only
problem is that there isn’t enough time to get Opal out, and do you really want
Opal on the loose? No. No you don’t.
But if the Opal they have is shot there are a lot of
repercussions. Basically, the time line will split and everything that Opal has
had a hand in will go BOOM. Supposedly. But the LEP doesn’t want to take any
chances and begin a citywide evacuation and place Opal into an underground tube
just in case she goes BOOM too.
Ah, Opal is a cunning little pixie though. She planned all
of this, and with her younger self’s death, she becomes…well, I’m not even sure
what she becomes. Let’s just say she becomes really powerful with dark magic,
and she has a plan to unlock these ancient warriors called Berserkers to help
her unlock a switch that would basically wipe out all of humanity.
So, like I said there were some things with this book that
drove me absolutely crazy. For one thing, Opal. Yeah, I know, I really liked
her in book 4 but when she gets dragged into half of the books in this series,
you have a repetitive villain. You might as well just rename the series Artemis
Fowl and Opal Koboi Take on the World. Second, the ending was just ridiculous.
Artemis Fowl finally dies because of his actions – huzzah. But Butler and Holly
can’t live with it and figure out a way to bring him back to life. The
chrysalis that Opal used to make her clone gets brought into play to make an Artemis
‘clone.’ That’s great. Not. Why can’t you just have Artemis stay dead? And I
thought everything that Opal was involved with blew up? So how was it that this
chrysalis didn’t explode too? The final thing that I didn’t like about this
book was that while loose ends were tied up, there was one I was disappointed
that didn’t get tied up. Whatever happened to the girl genius criminal
mastermind from book 5? She just sort of disappears.
Final Rating: 4 out of 5 stars. The ending wasn’t completely
horrible, but there were some things that should have been done differently.
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