O'Brien lends his malleable accent to goblins and pixies alike, taking listeners on a joyful roller-coaster ride from beginning to end.Īrtemis Fowl – the original book in this series – received the Young Reader's Choice Award in 2004 and was selected as the favourite Puffin Books title of 2010. The series – as read by the rich, smooth voice of Irish actor Gerry O'Brien – makes for excellent family listening. It's an inventive mix of myth, magic and crime that creator Eoin Colfer calls it 'Die Hard with fairies'. Her team wants her back and they're armed and dangerous.Īrtemis Fowl is a best-selling young adult fantasy series with a very unusual hero. But this particular fairy, a Captain in the LEPRecon Unit, isn't your ordinary fairy. Translating and processing as he goes, they quickly track and capture a fairy called Holly Short. With his unstoppable manservant, Butler, by his side, Artemis is armed with a copy of the fairy bible, called 'The Book'. So it will come as no surprise that Artemis is on a hunt for an exceptional kind of gold. The family motto is 'Aurum Est Potestas' which translates to 'Gold is Power'. He's also a criminal mastermind and heir apparent to the Fowl dynasty. Twelve-year-old Artemis Fowl is a genius.
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