22. Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code

I sort of have this thing for Children's Lit. I don't really know why or how to explain it, but if there is a good children's series or even a mediocre children's series or even some teen romancy series that is about as realistic as me not wanting DQ about 100 times a month and I just have to read it. Maybe because said books are MORE about escapism?

Anyways.

I think I like Artemis Fowl because of all the fairies and the centaurs and the magic. Maybe I just have to believe that there maybe could be magic somewhere. Or maybe I like the little witty moments like calling humans MudMen and the LEP. Or maybe I just like that they depict good vs evil as having shades of grey.

We were talking in bookclub about writing and overuse of adjectives and the word said and etc and I have to admit that those aren't things I usually notice unless they are glaringly obvious or the story is so slow ... but usually when I read I get caught up in the momentum of the plot and the characters and I don't pay attention to the incidentals. Which is interesting of me.