I just finished this third book in the Artemis Fowl series. (You can find my posts about the first book here and about the second book here.) As I said before, I like this series. The characters have a little more depth then what I expected in a book about (and for) a thirteen-year-old.This book brought back all the great characters. Colfer isn't afraid to hurt the characters in ways that will significantly change who they are and what they do. This is refreshing.
I listened to this book in the car, and at one point, an American criminal says, "No more blarney." I wasn't sure I heard the voice actor correctly. The actor does almost every voice in either an Irish accent or some kind of English accent. But because this particular criminal was American (I don't think there were any American characters in the first two books) the actor did an American accent. I know that Eoin Colfer is Irish, so for one of his characters to use the word "blarney" doesn't come as a big surprise, but for an American to say it? The only kind of American that would use "blarney" has no self-respect and must come from the set of Portlandia. And this character didn't belong on the set of Portlandia. He is supposed to be a hardened Chicago gangster type. Sorry Eoin, this guy is not going to be saying "blarney." I had to look it up to make sure I had heard it correctly. I did. You can find the excerpt here. There must be a word for this, (like anachronism, but for the wrong country), but I couldn't find one.
Outside of the Irish-speaking-American, the book was a lot of fun.
Format: audiobook
Read/don't read: read
You can find this book at Amazon.com here: Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code
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