{"id":2624,"date":"2007-02-21T23:12:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-21T23:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2624"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:26:10","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:26:10","slug":"gnommish-good-and-outlandish-adventures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2624","title":{"rendered":"Gnommish Good and Outlandish Adventures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The fifth book in the <i>Artemis Fowl<\/i> series I <i>thought<\/i> would be a total wipe. It seemed impossible that a series could go on for as many books as this one has without a single misstep, and the minute I heard there was a <i>GIRL<\/i> involved and that Artemis was hitting puberty, well, I pretty much doomed old Artie to the scrap heap.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eoincolfer.com\/\" target= _blank>Eoin Colfer<\/a>, however, is smarter than I am. I should remember that.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.booksense.com\/product\/info.jsp?affiliateId=ReadersResponse&amp;isbn=0786849568\" target= _blank>Artemis Fowl and the Lost Colony<\/a> begins in Barcelona, where the thirteen-year-old genius is waiting&#8230; for something, driving his faithful bodyguard, Butler, insane, as he insists on standing where he cannot be protected. When he is finally dissuaded from waiting, saying that his timing was off, he sees something materialize in the middle of the Barcelona street. It is a demon, and Artemis grabs him. Fortunately, Butler grabs <i>him<\/i>, and he is wearing silver, which anchors them both to the human dimension.<\/p>\n<p>Someone else was waiting for the demon. Someone else is almost as smart as Artemis. Her name is Minerva, and she thinks she has Artemis beat when the next time a demon materializes, she takes it, and gives him a saucy wave.<\/p>\n<p>The twists and turns of this novel get better and better &#8212; I won&#8217;t give anything away except to say that the last twist means that the final book in the Artemis Fowl series may be the best yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fifth book in the Artemis Fowl series I thought would be a total wipe. It seemed impossible that a series could go on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12,74,44,14,5],"class_list":["post-2624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-fantasy-sci-fi","tag-guy-appeal","tag-humor","tag-middle-grade","tag-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2624"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3917,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2624\/revisions\/3917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}