The Time Paradox

And here it is! The last book (so far) in the Artemis Fowl series. Colfer's use of time travel in this book makes a lot more sense than the last one, and more than once, you're guaranteed to facepalm yourself when the little details and allusions all come together at the end. Another great thing about the use of time travel in this novel is that you can compare the characters of the past and how much they've evolved over the course of the next five books (a colossal amount). And of course, the plot is one big, funny, adventure that makes this book one of the best ones in the series.

Artemis Fowl has called up his fairy friends once more. This time it's because his mother is deathly ill, and getting worse by the minute. She is diagnosed by the fairies with Spelltropy, a disease that can only be cured with the brain fluid of the Silky Sifaka lemur. What's the catch? Artemis himself killed the last member of the species when he was ten years old. So in order to save his mother, he has to travel back in time to steal the lemur back. This plan proves to be working just fine, until things don't go according to the past. Will the little lemur be safely transported back, or will a new (and old) villain return to ensure that two members of the twenty-first century get permanently stuck in the twentieth?

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