Artemis Fowl: The Atlantis Complex

Artemis Fowl: The Atlantis Complex
Eoin Colfer

Artemis has committed his entire fortune to a project he believes will save the planet and its inhabitants, both human and fairy. Can it be true? Has goodness taken hold of the world's greatest teenage criminal mastermind?

Captain Holly Short is unconvinced, and discovers that Artemis is suffering from Atlantis Complex, a psychosis common among guilt-ridden fairies - not humans - and most likely triggered by Artemis's dabbling with fairy magic. Symptoms include obsessive-compulsive behavior, paranoia, multiple personality disorder and, in extreme cases, embarrassing professions of love to a certain feisty LEPrecon fairy.

Unfortunately, Atlantis Complex has struck at the worst possible time. A deadly foe from Holly's past is intent on destroying the actual city of Atlantis. Can Artemis escape the confines of his mind, and the grips of a giant squid, in time to save the underwater metropolis and its fairy inhabitants?

Criminal mastermind Artemis Fowl has summoned an elite group of high-tech fairies to Iceland. He wants to present his invention to save the world from global warming. But something terrible has happened to him.
Artemis Fowl has become nice.
The fairies diagnose Atlantis Complex (aka multiple-personality disorder) – dabbling in magic has damaged Artemis’s mind. And now the subterranean city of Atlantis is under attack from vicious robots and nice Artemis is no use to anyone

 I'm finally getting around to finishing these books. I don't know why I haven't finished this series earlier. I like Artemis and the gang and their adventures that they go on together. I've had a hard time finishing this one, though. I think, for me, that everything was moving a bit slow. Things that should have been done fast weren't done fast and the opposite for the slow things. Or course the humor that Colfer puts into his books is still there. Reading the little nonsensical tidbits and references to Dwarves' nether-regions in round-about ways is always fun to read.

The part I missed the most was having a big "a-ha moment" when Artemis' plans fall into place. Since Artemis has Atlantis Complex, you don't really get that. He's out of sorts in many ways, although reading from his alter-ego's point-of-view is very entertaining. There is a small "a-ha moment" when Artemis uses this other half to his advantage, but not really anything like in the other books.

I still enjoyed reading this book. I'm kind of sad that I'm reading the last one now. It means that I'll have to say good-bye to new adventures from the gang. But if the movie works out, then it should be fun to see how everything is done.