It is highly advised to NOT read this text or look at the pictures if you have not completed the eighth book "Artemis Fowl: The Last Guardian" by Eoin Colfer.


SPOILER WARNING!

So, yay, I finally finished the first part of the sketches. : D I'm sorry about the last two pages, they were for practice because I got out of touch with drawing Artemis lately, but I ended up submitting them too. OTL' So please focus on the first three, or even better - just on the second and the third one. xD; Thank you! <3

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About the book. 8D
I liked it. It was very nice, very dramatic, totally epic and a bit sad (no, actually, it was very sad!).

What I didn't like was the use of science theories this time. Or rather probably the lack of it? I'm talking about the part where older Koboi was about to explode due to the killing of her younger version. This was too much. Whatever magic or not, it just doesn't seem right. Of course since time travel wasn't yet achieved by our civilizaton, it's hard to argue, but I'm a big fan of the theory of trousers of time (is that the name?).

In such a case after the death of the younger Koboi nothing would have happened, because there is actually a very large number of alternative universes and it just so happened that she came from one and died in another. Thus the older Koboi wouldn't have been the same person, but the older version of some other Koboi, who lived in the universe where the book's action takes place in.

Another thing is... OMG, my favourite character died!!! WHY!?

This part was super sad and I really cried a lot on it. But of course you would say - wait a minute, did you read till the last page? Well, yes - but realistically speaking that persom would be someone else with the soul of the previous Artemis. He would never regain his memories, and although his body and mind could be the same, it would be formed in a different manner. If that is so, then he would be a completely different person with potentially different character (although Artemis' comment at one point suggests that he would probably still try to gather money, since it's something he has inherited from his father), different background and different way of living.

Unless.

Well, here's just a little theory of mine. See how in Mr. Colfer's books magic is actually the representation of energy? Well then. Let's say the soul (as described in the book) also consists of magic AKA energy. We know that Artemis (using his brain power - haha, another ridiculus moment, sorry) maintained his soul in the place of his death. Then if he really could do anything about it, I suppose he could make that energy into matter, as Einstein has proven (E=mc2, you know this, right?). The matter in particular could be some brain cells (or even some energy to change his new actual brain cells) which contained his memories. And ta-da! Our favourite criminal mastermind is back and kicking!

Well, I suppose it's a farfetched, stupid, useless theory. Magic is magic - maybe it just all happened magically (right...).

Anyway - this was always my favourite part of the Artemis Fowl series - the use of science in an unconventional way. So this time I was a bit dissapointed on this part, but everything else was terrific. <3

Well, if Opal didn't blow up - the action surely wouldn't get so interesting and hard to deal with, so I'm glad it turned out like this.

... I think.