The Eternity Code

THE ETERNITY CODE by

Category: Fantasy

Age Recommendation: Grades 6+

Release Date: 5/1/05

Publisher: Miramax

Reviewed by:

Rating: 5 Stars

Artemis Fowl the Second has a brilliant plan--one last scheme to make his family some money, then he'll leave the

crime life

behind him and turn over a new leaf. Everything starts out fine, with Artemis meeting with billionaire

businessman Jon Spiro to

discuss a mutually agreeable arrangement. Artemis, you see, has developed the C Cube, a

mini-supercomputer that can do

almost anything. For the right price, Artemis will withhold releasing the Cube to the

public to allow Spiro's company to catch

up in the technology world. All seems well, until Spiro steals the Cube, his

bodyguard, Blunt, fatally wounds Butler, and

Artemis is left wondering how it all went wrong.

What follows is Artemis's desperate plea to the fairies to help heal Butler and rescue the C Cube from evil Spiro,

before he

becomes aware of the Fairy World and wreaks havoc on the creatures living below ground. As Captain

Holly Short is once

again drawn into one of Artemis's dangerous schemes, she does so, along with Commander Root,

with one condition--when

the C Cube is recovered, Artemis, Butler, and Butler's sister, Juliet, will all submit to mind

wipes, erasing every trace of the

fairies from their memories. Artemis agrees, desperate to save Butler's life, but

already he has plans to avoid the erasure of a

mind wipe.

THE ETERNITY CODE contains a lot more action-adventure than the two previous books, and a lot less of the

world of

Fairy. It is, though, still a very fast-paced, enjoyable read, and I'm left wanting to know what will happen

next. Thoroughly

entertaining, and highly recommended.

Artemis Fowl Bk. 3: The Eternity Code
by Eoin Colfer