Artemis Fowl The Time Paradox By: Eoin Colfer

Ever since I started reading the Artemis Fowl series, by Eoin Colfer, I was hooked. I loved stories that combined fantasy and technology. What made it even better was the characters. Each character had a great personality and contributed to the whole story in his or her own way.  When The Time Paradox , another Artemis Fowl book, came out, I thought it would be just as enjoyable to read.

The Time Paradox started out as another exciting story. But things started to go downhill when I got to the part where Artemis Fowl goes back in time to save his sick mother. All throughout the time traveling affair I was thinking he's going to ruin his future. Thinking about this ruined the adventure that was happening in Artemis Fowl's past.

As it turned out, the book has the same idea as presented in J.K. Rowling's third book of Harry Potter. This form of time travel makes a little more sense than customary time traveling, but it still has problems. What made Eoin Colfer's form of time travel even more confusing is when Artemis Fowl is locked in the trunk of his car in the past. Artemis Fowl just thinks for a bit, and help comes. As Mulch says a little later in the book, "You sent back a note so that I would come and rescue you here and now."(117). How did Artemis do that? Does he have control on his past selves when he is in the past? There are too many questions for this one answer, and these questions are what ruined a lot of the book for me.

Overall this book was okay, but the time travel  aspect ruined it for me. I know that many teenage fantasy lovers will enjoy this book. It has great characters and a good story. I recommend that you don't spend too much time thinking about time travel. I hope you enjoy The Time Paradox more than I did.