A nice Artemis Fowl is not a pretty sight. But it’s what you get in Artemis Fowl and the Atlantis Complex. After so many books it goes without saying that Eoin Colfer has to try the new and the shocking, and ‘ruin’ Artemis for us…
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I think that this is completly true i think artemis sould always be well mean and certainly NOT crazy he should always be in controll of EVERY SITUATION. So yes i think this review is very descriptive of the book but it must be hard to write a book in 2 YEARS… EOIN!! >:(
I thought this book was good, but didnt quite live up to the previous books’ standards. Though, i did like the new dimensions he gave us on Artemis’s character. Orion is pretty funny too =) im also glad the toilet humor stayed. An Artemis fowl adventure is not complete without mulch to spice it up. Im also glad the villan was given an emotional backstory to help us relate to him. But, i think it should have been written in more of a logical manner, it lost me a few times. And i wana c a more softer, girlier side to Holly. And Butler to find some love =)
For me, nothing will beat the Arctic Incident. I never saw Arty as mean…I saw him as witty…in a devious, calculating sorta way. I wanna see more Angeline! She’s probably the coolest fictional mum ever. I want to see Artemis being the good type of bad again…if that even makes sense. And I want to see how that wrestling fight between Juliet and the pixie turned out! Perhaps even the name of the hospital the pixie will be submitted to… I wanna see Trouble and Holly on a date! The relationship in which girl kicks guy’s butt every single time. Because Holly’s a main character, and Trouble…is Trouble. Holly must be the coolest humanoid tomboy ever. And Trouble…he has violet eyes, which is soooooooo cool! I also want Arty to have a younger cousin. Random, yes, but it’d be cool. She should be the pretty-intelligent-but-not-as-smart-as-Artemis. And she should kick butt! She’d be like Angeline, but not afraid to kick Artemis right on the kneecap.
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And I know where I’m going now. Right to fanfiction!
It was a good book, but not as excellent as the previous books. Where all the other books had complete conclusions, Atlantis was completely open ended. With Angeline’s call I was expecting at least a funny conclusion concerning the wardrobe of Artemis. Also when Holly said they needed to talk later after the intro of Orion I was assuming the readers would see a closer relationship between the two come out, though I’m not a big fan of the pairing
I suppose its inevitable. I suppose I expected a finished adventure like the others. I welcomed the surprise of seeing another Artemis book on store book shelves but now I’m positive there will be another book as there must be a sequel to tie up all the loose ends and instead of being excited and surprised I feel all the frustrations of waiting for a sequel. Not mad 
just…waiting impatiently for a conclusion. Still a good book but it seemed to lack the intensity of its predecessors. There didn’t seem to be a climax, seemed a little rushed, but what did make it a fun read was Orion and the comedic dialogue that of his character and those around him. As always great dialogue and writing just should have been longer I suppose. Can’t wait for the next book. No seriously I can’t!
i love artemise fowl but i thought that the new one the atlantiscomplex was not as good as all the others. my favourite has got to be either the time paradox or the eternety code! i know that there is a movie that might be coming out but i was wondering if there were any trailers or anything?
In short, I thought the thing that bothered me the most in this book is that what I loved about the series the most was the daring, ingenious plans that unfolded into beautiful action scenes testing each character’s mental and physical capabilities to the limit, the odds mercilessly stacked against them. The Artemis Fowl protagonists make their own luck in their own unique way. I was hoping for an improvement from the Time Paradox and a fresh new crisis that would stretch the limits of the characters to the point that it forces character development. While I must acknowledge that it has been a few months since I read the novel and I might be missing something, the book seemed to have left me with the impression of some generic Saturday morning cartoon. The characters seemed to be whisked through the story and scenes by “luck”. Not the self made luck that comes from years of preparation and skill but the luck that “the chosen one” gets for being the main character.
There is something that happens too often to pieces of media that are works of beauty, a masterpiece. It could be a movie, a TV-series, a book, a video game, or something else. The world of media is swamped with mildly entertaining mediocrity but when a “masterpiece” or something comparable comes out like, Harry Potter, Halo, Modern Warfare 2, Lord of the Rings, the Dark Knight, and others they make what amounts to sometimes billions of dollars. Then, shortly after something mediocre is made that makes MORE money than its predecessor simply because of its reputation. Sometimes you have seen the prime of the series or it could be a hiccup, pulling through later with better content. It seemed that the first five books in Artemis Fowl were beautiful, being consistently better than the proceeding book. Maybe Colfer just needs a break but the last two books have seemed to fallen to above average and average categories respectively. I hope that the series can be renewed in the future and hopefully it has not ran out of steam and does not fall further into obscurity.
Whatever the future brings Artemis Fowl (at least the first five books) is still an exceptional series and is considered by me to be a masterpiece.