A hero, as he is not in the storybook ...

Eoin Colfer has managed with this book a winner - fun, exciting, always surprising and quite imaginative. His hero, or rather anti-hero, is a twelve year old Irish boy from a wealthy family that can proudly look back on a number of criminal ancestors. Moneymaking honorably is ultimately boring. Wunderkind Artemis creates what is still not managed before him: he kidnapped an elven creature to a huge amount to extort money. Lovable-devious genius he is with his twelve years, everything went fine until the frightened magical creatures cease to comply with the rules laid down in their big book. Oh, the magic beings are technically and technologically improbable well equipped and the people ahead of a lot. To tap into satellite in order to get news is routine. The following negotiations and trying to escape the elves beings are not bad and culminate in the fact that the time is stopped to win ... uh ... time. In addition, it haunted there's a sort of atomic bomb after Elfenart, with the shockingly militant Zauberwesen want to put everything in the right solder again. Eoin Colfer moves with popular ideas about cute little green goblins in buckled shoes, who guard all a pot of gold, carefully slide. It may be a shock and needed some getting used to but perseverance in reading is worthwhile. This book is read in one piece truly no art but inevitable. The mere presentation of this issue is an unlikely sight for sore eyes and a mystery there's also this. Which reminds me, I have something to solve.