Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident

The world's youngest, brightest, and most dangerous mastermind is back.

At the start of his second adventure, Artemis is at boarding school in Ireland when he recieves an urgent video e-mail from Russia. In it is a plea from a man who has been kidnapped by the Russian Mafiya—a man Artemis had thought he would never see again: his beloved father.
As Artemis rushes to his rescue, he is stopped by a familiar nemesis, Captain Holly Short of the LEPrecon fairy police. But this time, instead of battling the fairies, he is going to have to join forces with them if he wants to save one of the few people in the world he loves.

This, if it wasn't apparent already, is the second book in the Artemis Fowl series. It does a good job of living up to the high standards set in the first book, in my opinion. However, where the first book was somewhat lighthearted, this one is quite darker.

The reason I say that is because in TAI, Artemis must deal with the Mafiya before they do unthinkable things to his father. At the same time that this is happening, there is an uprising happening in the fairy world and the LEP may not be able to handle it. If either side wants to get their respective issues taken care of, they will need to join forces, no matter how hard it may be.

I don't want to give away too much of the book, so this review will be really short. On that note, let's get to the rating.

AF: TAI gets 8.5 stars.

I decided to give The Arctic Incident 8.5 stars. While it has a high rereadability (I read it again after not reading it in years), there were a few points in the book where it sort of just dragged on. It wasn't enough to actually impact how the book read, but it was enough to drop a star and a half off the rating. Regardless of what I rate it though, it is one of those books that I would recommend to pretty much anyone.

This series is one that I feel that has the potential to make it to the silver screen someday. Because of that, I think everyone should read them. And, hopefully (if anyone in Hollywood is possibly reading this), they aren't made into just one movie, but one per book, provided they rate well. 

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