Artemis Fowl and the Eternity Code
This is the third book of Artemis Fowl series. The main character – Artemis Fowl, a criminal genius mastermind is return with a money-making scheme that will risk the entire fairy species underground. In the first and second book, his fame had been widely spread across the world for his incredible mind. Everyone encountered with him had known what’s fear. Although being just a teenager, he has a great IQ that goes beyond a normal person. The first book talks about how he is going to plot the biggest crime the world has ever seen that will involve a group of intelligent species – Fairies. And he is going to make billions from it. Now in the Eternity Code, he attempts to plot one last crime before he embraces his father’s wish to start a new life, forgetting the traditional ways of the Fowl family.
Several months after he saved his father from the kidnappers, Artemis promised his father he will stop his crime businesses. Before he decided to retire, he carried out a last dirty plan that will give him a fortune and secure his entire life. He builds a cube using stolen fairy technology and some of his own intelligence. It’s called the C-Cube. Its function is devastating. It can just do anything to the entire world’s computer systems, technology and even satellites. The cube technology he harnessed is beyond any human technology that can found on earth. With the Cube, he invited a dangerous Chicago businessman Jon Spiro for a little trade. Artemis demonstrated the cube ability to the guy and tries to threaten him to trade a big sum of money or else he will release the cube to the market. Jon Spiro recognizes the cube’s power and it can easily destroy his company. Just when Artemis thought his plan is going smoothly, everything just went horribly wrong. He was fooled and ambushed by Spiro. In the end, he stole the cube and instructed his bodyguard to kill Artemis and Butler, Artemis’ bodyguard. During the escape, Butler was nearly died protecting Artemis. Couldn’t bear to lose a best friend, Artemis tries all sorts of ways to save Butler’s life. Fortunately, lucks go with him, he managed to restore his life using cryogenics and bait Captain Holly Short, a fairy from the LEPrecon squad to heal Butler using healing magic.
The healing turned out pretty well except Butler became older due to a little malfunction in the healing process. Thus, he was unable to follow Artemis and protect him anymore. After reviving Butler, Holly Short wanted an explanation of the incident just now. Artemis then reveal everything happened and the invention of C-Cube. It shocked Holly as the C-Cube may aid the human in discovering the fairy species and by then there will be a war between species. To make matter worse, it falls on a ruthless, evil guy like Jon Spiro. The consequences were very serious. Luckily, Butler had a sister named Juliet who mastered martial arts like him and could effectively protect Artemis. Juliet also agreed to aid Artemis recover the C-Cube. Besides, the LEPecron team and a kleptomaniac dwarf Mulch Diggums also agreed to help Artemis retrieve the stolen cube from Jon Spiro. After Artemis plot his mission in breaking into Spiro’s company, Fission Chip, they then began their mission.
Mulch Diggums is a dwarf that is skilled in digging tunnel underground and known for stealing anything he desires. In the mission, he came in useful as he could help to break into the company and clear bodyguards using his dwarf gas which could blast away enemies with high pressure. As for Captain Holly, she had been in contact with Artemis for quite a long time and she saved Artemis from danger for considerably lots of times and of course Artemis trusted her. Dealing with a guy like Spiro was not easy, he was an opponent that worth Artemis’ respects and managed to give Artemis a great challenge. His security was totally mad with sorts of devices equipped almost everywhere in his company. Although having awesome securities, Jon Spiro was still no match for the fairy technology, moreover facing a genius centaur, Fowly who could easily hacked every security systems in the company like CCTVs. With the amount of efforts the team put in, Jon Spiro was finally beaten up. After the team successfully broke into the company and find the location of the C-Cube, Jon Spiro was tricked by Artemis. Artemis first purposely walked into Spiro’s trap and operated the C-Cube, while in fact Fowly actually transferred his voice into the C-Cube. They lured Jon Spiro to go to his industry enemy’s company. Then the team came out from the company surrounded Jon Spiro. Soon, Artemis had the Cube back.
Returning back to Fowl Manor, the fairies thought that Artemis is too dangerous as he knew too much about fairies. With reluctance, the LEPecron had to prioritize the safety of their colonel and chose to erase every fairy related information around Artemis. Artemis agreed to be mind-wiped and decided it's the time to say farewell to the fairies. Of course, a genius like Artemis would not let his memories lost like that, he actually had a backup plan which could trigger his memory back after the mind-wipe. He gave Mulch Diggums a coin that contained every knowledge about the fairies. He acted like he was giving a farewell gift to Mulch but in fact, he tried to hint Mulch to come back and give him the coin to let him revive his memories of the existence of fairies. So what will truly await Artemis in the next book?
I personally feel that this book is very interesting and fun to read. There are a lot of actions and adventures involved in the book. Especially with those cool fairy technology devices and mysterious creatures like mad genius centaur and kleptomaniac dwarf that spits dwarf gas. Besides continuous action packs, there are some humors in the book too. Overall, I learnt a lot of values in this book. One of them is friendship. In the book, it shows how Artemis repeatedly find solutions to bring back his old friend, Butler from death. Although Butler is Artemis’ bodyguard, he have a strong bond with Butler and could not bear to lose his only close friend. I learnt to appreciate friendship more, as they guide us along in our life, motivate us to keep moving in life, never give up.
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