Advantages: Another cracking read
Disadvantages: Not as good as the first book

...and are investigating the second as it is worth investing the time to read. And it’s still a lot slicker than a lot of the tosh on the bookshelves currently. And again there is a coded text written at the bottom of each page in fairy pictograms. If you found this helpful I have posted reviews of the other books in the series - Artemis Fowl (the original novel) and The Eternity Code (the third and most recent book) Go on…take a look…you know you want to. Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident by Eoin Colfer Published by Puffin ISBN 0141312130 304 pages paperback £4.99... Read review

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Advantages: Lovely read
Disadvantages: Hardback too heavy to hold

...Fairies & Gobins & Trolls. OH MY! •¤•¤•¤•¤•¤•¤• ARTEMIS FOUL – THE ARCTIC INCIDENT •¤•¤•¤•¤•¤•¤• If your word-hungry kids have reached saturation point with Harry Potter, or perhaps never really liked the straight-laced boy magician in the first place, here's a fact that will make him or her sit up and take notice: the world's most dangerous criminal mastermind is only 13 years old! That's right, Artemis Fowl, who was introduced in Eoin Colfer's popular book of the same name (see my previous op.), is the ultimate evil teenage genius. He returns in ARTEMIS FOWL: THE ARCTIC INCIDENT, changing his tactics this time around. Instead of kidnapping fairies for ransom, as he did in his first adventure, he joins forces with them... Read review

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Advantages: excellent book, great read
Disadvantages: not quite as good as the first one

.... He began writing plays at an early age, forcing his unfortunate classmates to dress up as marauding Vikings when they would have preferred to be outside doing some real marauding. Browbeaten by constant encouragement from his family, Eoin continued to write as an adult. His first novel, Benny and Omar, was a bestseller in Ireland, and Artemis fowl, the first book featuring the brilliant young anti-hero, was an immediate international hit. Artemis Fowl: The arctic Incident was an instant number one best seller, as was this book and Artemis fowl: The Opal deception. *** The Main Characters *** Artemis Fowl (the second) is the main character. He is a criminal mastermind, with the highest tested IQ in Europe. Oh, one thing I forgot, he is 12 when the series begins. Artemis is a scrawny looking boy with manicured nails and cropped dark... Read review

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Advantages: Large number of books of high class action
Disadvantages: A few weak links

...Alistair MacLean is one of the most highly regarded authors of action thrillers that Britain has ever produced. Born in 1922 to the son of a Scottish Minister, English was in fact his second language after Scottish Gaelic. Joining the Royal Navy in 1941 his war time exploits in the Arctic, Atlantic, Mediterranean and Pacific, gave him the background that served him well in his later writings. Following his release from the Royal Navy in 1946, he studied and graduated with an English degree from Glasgow University, which he then used to gain a post as a teacher. It was his student days that saw the first elements of his future writing career, as he gained an additional income by writing short stories. The publisher, Collins, asked MacLean to write a novel for them, and as a result in 1955 he produced HMS Ulysses. There then followed... Read review

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Advantages: Better than Digital Fortress
Disadvantages: Formula fiction

...Along with a large proportion of the population I've read 'The Da Vinci Code' by Dan Brown, so I decided to give some of his other offerings a read. In this instance Deception Point is the sacrificial lamb at the book reviewing altar. So what's it all about then? Following a rather bad tempered breakfast meeeting with her father Senator Sedgwick Sexton (who is incidentally running for US presidency), Rachel Sexton an analyst for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) thinks her day can't get any worse. Oh but it can. She's called away from work for a clandestine meeting with the President (her fathers election rival) Zach Herney, and before she knows it, Rachel is riding in the back seat of an air force jet, to a secret location deep inside the Arctic Circle. Only upon arrival at her arctic destination does Rachel begin... Read review

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Advantages: everything- fast-paced, hilarious, action packed!
Disadvantages: too hard to put the book down!!!!!!!!!

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Advantages: Witty, rollercoaster entertainment
Disadvantages: Very few

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Advantages: Nice action packed fun for all the family.
Disadvantages: Hard to put down, forces you to buy the third! :-)

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Advantages: great second book and easy to follow on from the first or start with it.
Disadvantages: Aas my copy was hardback and had a slip on cover that does get annoying

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Advantages: Well-researched, spectacularly entertaining tale of lycanthropy
Disadvantages: The length - you might feel it's too short, and start pacing for a sequel...

...'Cold At Heart' is that rarest of things - an inventive and original werewolf tale. So often in horror literature we see the same tired motifs and plot lines regurgitated on the lycanthrope theme, and it often feels as though, of all horror archetypes, this is one that has had it's day. Brian A. Hopkins, winner of a Bram Stoker Award for long fiction 1999, is the man to prove us wrong. A fine writer, the money is good that he will be one of those sculpting the landscape of speculative fictions as we ease into the new century. 'Cold At Heart' is a compact case in point. When Peter Burke agrees to act as expedition photographer to father and daughter David ad Julie Snow as they journey to the Arctic Ellesmere Island to study the Arctic Wolf, he find himself wondering what he has involved himself in long before the true weirdness... Read review

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