Well, that was series-altering. Shame on Opal Koboi for |killing off Commander Root|.
At least it all turns out all right (well, except for the fact that |Commander Root is dead|). I don't have much to say about this one, really.
Basically, Opal Koboi (who was behind the battery smugglers in The Arctic Incident) |went into a coma after the events of that book|. So there's no way she could be a threat again, right? Wrong. In fact, |the coma was... (drumroll please) a deception. She also attempts to convince the fairy world that she's still in a coma by replacing herself with a clone. (Clones, in the Artemis Fowl universe, are basically catatonic copies of the original person; the being catatonic isn't a problem if you're using it to fool people into thinking you're still catatonic. It's quite smart, really. She just needed| some potato soup to complete the deception.
So anyway, there's this whole other thing with Opal planning to blow some stuff up, and Opal dumping Artemis and Holly in an abandoned amusement park full of trolls, and Artemis and Butler having to |regain the memories the fairies removed back in book 3. Happily, Artemis gets his character development back! So, yay.|. That's the main focus of the book, actually, plus Opal magicking some human into unwittingly discovering the fairies, as a revenge plot, because she got even more megalomaniacal |during her time in a coma|.
Were this a videogame, I'd rate it: T for fantasy violence, some crude humor, and some bad language.
I'm going to give Opal Deception 4 stars.
Favorite lines:
Root did not appreciate being argued with. "One, don't call me Julius. Two, do what I say, horsey boy, or I'll have your budget slashed. And three, what in Frond's name is the can-can?"
Pages 56-57.
(Endnote: No, Artemis does not try to punch any of the trolls. He's not dumb.)
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