They're in an island out of time, of course.
I am no stranger to the Artemis Fowl series. Hell, the movie adaptation, despite multiple casting fails, is one of my most anticipated of 2019.
While my personal favorite of the series remains The Opal Deception, The Lost Colony is right up there.
Ten thousand years ago, humans and fairies fought a great battle for the magical island of Ireland. When it became clear that they could not win, all of the faeries moved below ground—all except for the 8th family, the demons. Rather than surrender, they used a magical time spell to take their colony out of time and into Limbo. There they have lived for decades, planning their violent revenge on humans.
Now the time spell is unraveling, and demons are beginning to materialize without warning on Earth. If humans were to find out about them, all faeries would be exposed. To protect themselves, the faeries must predict when the next demon will materialize. But in order to do so, they will have to decipher temporal equations so complicated, even a great brain like Foaly can't understand them. But he knows someone who can: Artemis Fowl.
So when a confused and frightened demon imp pops appears in a Sicilian theater, Artemis is there to meet him. But he is not alone. Someone else has unlocked the secrets of the fairy world and managed to solve complex mathematical problems that only a genius could. And she is only twelve years old...
Don't get too hyped about that girl, Minerva, she doesn't really come back in any meaningful capacity. After half the story, her role is pretty minimal as well.
These books all kind of the same pattern - Opens with action, a lot of talking, ends with action that's a wee bit confusingly written because it shifts to a lot of different points of view and the tech gets overwhelming.
This is still my second favorite for the assault upon Chateau Paradizo alone.
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