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The Last Guardian (Artemis Fowl, #8)
by Eoin Colfer
by Eoin Colfer
Mith's review
bookshelves: wishlist, fantasy, young-adult, science-fiction, wizards-n-dragons, absolutely-spiffing
Jul 26, 12
bookshelves: wishlist, fantasy, young-adult, science-fiction, wizards-n-dragons, absolutely-spiffing
Read from July 10 to 11, 2012
4.5 stars for the entire series as a whole!
It's like the seventh book didn't even happen. Eoin Colfer is back with a bang, and how!
The Last Guardian has :
-Criminal Mastermind Juvenile Genius, Artemis Fowl, back in full form and all his brainiac glory.
- Captain Holly Short, as kick-ass as ever.
- Butler, still hoping his primary's end-of-the-world shenanigans stop for good, soon!
- Myles and Beckett Fowl, Artemis's four-year old siblings. Twins. (God help the world!)
- Foaly, as vain and awesome as ever (Seriously. How cool was his rescue of Caballine in almost-but-not-quite-the-end? Dude!)
- Mulch Diggums, still saving everyone's backside (pun intended) after they've gone and messed things up (as usual), thank you very much!
- Evil Mastermind, Opal Koboi, the deranged and psychotic pixie who wants to be the Empress of all and refers to herself as "Mommy" to her minions. (Guys, she is baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack....)
- Beserkers, Opal's unwitting minions. Ghosts in need of a body to possess for killing humans and who will not be put off by the choice of bodies available, be it alive or dead, and be it human or a couple of oblivious, and extremely unlucky, ducklings.
- Non-stop action.
- Extremely hilarious and witty zingers peppered generously throughout the book.
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The thing I LOVE about Colfer is how brillaintly planned his stories are! For example, a completely innocuous thing that happened in the first page of the book will turn out to be important to the plot in the very last page. This, in sharp contrast to some "authors" I could mention who make things up by the page and hope that we wouldn't notice!
But, the ending of The Last Guardian. Hmmm. I don't know, you guys. I'm conflicted. On one hand, I liked it - there was closure (sort of), BUT, on the other hand, I also...didn't like it?
It was missing an epilogue and, trust me, the book really, really needed one, in my opinion. (view spoiler)
Judge it for yourself when you read it. Which should be any second now. Why are you still here? GO READ!
It's like the seventh book didn't even happen. Eoin Colfer is back with a bang, and how!
The Last Guardian has :
-
- Captain Holly Short, as kick-ass as ever.
- Butler, still hoping his primary's end-of-the-world shenanigans stop for good, soon!
- Myles and Beckett Fowl, Artemis's four-year old siblings. Twins. (God help the world!)
- Foaly, as vain and awesome as ever (Seriously. How cool was his rescue of Caballine in almost-but-not-quite-the-end? Dude!)
- Mulch Diggums, still saving everyone's backside (pun intended) after they've gone and messed things up (as usual), thank you very much!
- Evil Mastermind, Opal Koboi, the deranged and psychotic pixie who wants to be the Empress of all and refers to herself as "Mommy" to her minions. (Guys, she is baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack....)
- Beserkers, Opal's unwitting minions. Ghosts in need of a body to possess for killing humans and who will not be put off by the choice of bodies available, be it alive or dead, and be it human or a couple of oblivious, and extremely unlucky, ducklings.
- Non-stop action.
- Extremely hilarious and witty zingers peppered generously throughout the book.
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The thing I LOVE about Colfer is how brillaintly planned his stories are! For example, a completely innocuous thing that happened in the first page of the book will turn out to be important to the plot in the very last page. This, in sharp contrast to some "authors" I could mention who make things up by the page and hope that we wouldn't notice!
But, the ending of The Last Guardian. Hmmm. I don't know, you guys. I'm conflicted. On one hand, I liked it - there was closure (sort of), BUT, on the other hand, I also...didn't like it?
It was missing an epilogue and, trust me, the book really, really needed one, in my opinion. (view spoiler)
Judge it for yourself when you read it. Which should be any second now. Why are you still here? GO READ!
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Reading Progress
| 07/10/2012 | page 0 |
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0.0% |
"OH MY GOD YOU GUYS! LOOK WHAT I GOT MY HANDS ON!!! "
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| 07/11/2012 | page 46 |
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14.0% |
""You look like a monkey passing a coconut.” "Foaly would play the drama queen if his carrot soufflé collapsed." "In silhouette, he looked like the world’s bulkiest ballerina attempting to pluck a flower." “May the fours be with you.” "“You are bleeping joking me?” he said, belly thrust out belligerently."" |
| 07/11/2012 | page 52 |
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16.0% |
""Opal Koboi does not make plans; she writes operas." I think Opal had to got to be one of the most fiendishly devious villains that is simply a delight to read about." |
| 07/11/2012 | page 60 |
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18.0% |
""Foaly was about to run a few calculations on the computer when the wall screen spontaneously shattered, leaking green gas into the room. “Hold on to something,” he advised. “Chaos is coming.”  This book is already HEAPS better than the last!" |
| 07/11/2012 | page 67 |
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20.0% |
"S-h-i-t. The way the aftermath of Phase One of Opal's plan has been described is simply amazing!" |
| 07/11/2012 | page 101 |
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31.0% |
"Wait, what? Where did Holly's dad come into the picture from? Hadn't we heard only about her mother till now? Argh! Deus ex machina! Do. Not. Like! x-(" |
| 07/11/2012 | page 120 |
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37.0% | "MUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUULCH!!! <3 <3 <3" |
| 07/11/2012 | page 125 |
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38.0% | ""Artemis did not feel like getting to the bottom of Mulch’s mystery, as the bottom of Mulch’s mysteries was generally in the vicinity of Mulch’s mysterious bottom."" |
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Jul 21, 2012 12:53pm
What did you think of the ending...I thought himdyimg was an awesome ending.. But he was bought back
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Hey, sorry about the late reply! Goodreads wasn't showing my notifications... I liked the ending... I'm glad he didn't die, but I'm not too happy about the way he was brought back. It was kinda "meh" :-/
Also, this ending really, really needed an epilogue, in my opinion. I wanted to know what happened to everybody and how they set about coping in the "new world" what with technology everywhere being destroyed..
Thats true. For this ending it needed an epilogue. If they just ended it with him dying then an abrupt end would have been ok. Anyway thats just me. Lol. I like my books abit dark! Plus if they wanted to bring him back surely they needed Warlock No1 in there to fix him in the body!
Amit wrote: " Plus if they wanted to bring him back surely they needed Warlock No1 in there to fix him in the body!..."That's true! He wasn't there in this AT ALL, was he? That would have made more sense...
