Artemis Fowl: The Time Paradox (Audiobook)
by Cherie Lee
School's back in session soon and you might not have as much time to read for fun, but maybe you can still listen to a story while you walk, drive, knit, etc.
In this newest time-bending installment of the Artemis Fowl series Artemis must face his own younger self in a battle to find a cure for his mother's sudden deadly illness.
This audiobook was read by Enn Reitel while the previous audiobooks were read by Nathaniel Parker, though I didn't notice a huge difference in the characters voices, which is good. However, the previous audiobooks had fun music at the beginning and end whereas this one doesn't, so I did miss that. It was only little intros and outros, but I'd come to think of it as the Artemis Fowl theme song, so it's kind of like a TV show without a theme song now.
As for the story, personally I feel the books have lost their earlier pizazz, but this may just be because the stories tend to be more of the same thing. I really like Artemis as a character, but I found the stories more fun when he was more morally bankrupt (with just small feelings of remorse). So you'd think it'd be exciting for me to see his younger self again, but it was more frustrating because on one hand you have a character who hasn't gone through any of the character development that you know he will, and on the other is the older Artemis who has developed into a slightly less interesting character. Although, as I said, perhaps it's just that he hasn't changed as a character since the last book so there was just nothing much new to keep me interested. The plot also severely pushed the limits of my credulity even for a world were pixies live underground, and it was extremely confusing to boot. So not my favorite but I'd still read another if it came out.
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