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Chapter 4: Floyd's Stag Night
Welcome back, Juliet! She FINALLY regains her memories of the fairies! YAY! It only took imminent death by mesmerized luchadore fans, but she finally remembers. Seriously, Juliet's is one of my favorites and her and Mulch are fantastic duo. I've missed her for the last four books.
Ummm... Can we talk about little Andre Price?
At 8 months, falling under a mesmer command gave him instantaneous understanding of Gnommish, which he retains fro the rest of his life. Interesting as this is -and as disturbing as is the picture of this tyke running over the heads of crazed wrestlers preforming a triplbe somersault, let's look at that last bit Colfer gives us in this mini biography of Andre Price: '...he could sometimes make twigs burst into flame if he thought about it hard enough."
Magic. Magic. After, say, half an hour under a very strong mesmer, this kid manages to work a little magic with no real understanding of it.
In the time stream, Artemis once noted how his human brain reacted to magic; it accepted the blue sparks readily, activating dormant parts of his brain, leading Artemis to believes that at one time humans possessed magic of their own.
This is HUGE and I have two big reactions to this.
First of all, this gives credence to my supposition that Angeline Fowl's frequent exposure to magic -especially mentally manipulative magic- is reactivating those same dormant parts of her brain and allowing her to recognize magic.
Second, Andre Price -fluent in Gnommish with a little ability to use magic- is only a few years younger than Myles and Beckett. Is Andre Price going to show up in the Fowl Twins series?!
Chapter 5: Onward & Outward
JULIUS ROOT'S WHAT NOW?!
I've lost track of how many times I've said this but there's a lot about these later books I've forgotten.
Like how utterly obnoxious Orion is. All Artemis' passion, but none of his boorishness? And he's a shameless flirt to boot! It's funny, don't get me wrong; but so obnoxious. Every time he swoon at Holly I want to punch him.
Although I love that Foaly's final judgment on Orion definitely not being Artemis is the fact that Orion can actually put together a decent pick up line. Especially after that icebreaker joke about ice breaking. Poor Arty...
When Orion's (only) idea is 'bivouac' it makes me realize this book will likely tells us whether the People have any hope of survival without Artemis Fowl.
When Holly is thought lost with the escape pod, Orion bemoans Artemis' loss and missed appreciation for Artemis not realizing what he had. As love struck as Orion is over Holly, it's Artemis' loss he's mourning. This is just interesting, especially considering Holly's observation that Orion has zero world experience; everything he's acting on is merely vicarious, including knowledge and emotions. As of yet, Orion really has no idea who he is, just that he isn't Artemis.
Chapter 6: Trimming the Weight
Turnball Root is Prisoner 42 and the question to that answer is 'How many roads must a man walk down?'
I despise Ark Sool. We've been over this ( I compared him to the devil, you might recall) but I also dislike that he became an out and out turncoat. Too black and white for my taste, I guess. I like when the unlikable commanders are still morally upright and justifiable characters, even if no one likes them. But that's just me.
The Eternity Code. The Opal Deception. The Atlantis Complex.
This is how many times Mulch Diggums took it upon himself to jump into the gang's adventures because he heard someone in the motley crew was in danger.
Butler and Juliet making fun of Artemis behind his back is gold, if you'll pardon the expression. Doctor Evil manuals and suction cups? Arty's loyal bodyguard just compared him to the likes of Dr. Horrible and Megamind and I love it.
April 4: Chapters 1-3
April 11: Chapters 4-7
April 18: Chapters 8-Epilogue
April 25: Production Hell
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