The Fowls Twins, by Eioin Colfer

Title: The Fowl Twins
Author: Eoin Colfer
Genre/ issues: Action adventure. Mystery. Suspense. Fantasy characters reimagined. Precocious kids doing precocious things.

The official blurb for this book reads:

“One week after their eleventh birthday, the Fowl twins–scientist Myles, and Beckett, the force of nature–are left in the care of house security (NANNI) for a single night. In that time they befriend a troll who has clawed his way through the earth’s crust to the surface. Unfortunately for the troll, he is being chased by a nefarious nobleman and an interrogating nun, who both need the magical creature for their own gain, as well as a fairy-in-training who has been assigned to protect him.

The boys and their new troll best friend escape and go on the run. Along the way they get shot at, kidnapped, buried, arrested, threatened, killed (temporarily), and discover that the strongest bond in the world is not the one forged by covalent electrons in adjacent atoms, but the one that exists between a pair of twins.”

If you’re familiar with the world of Artemis Fowl, then you’ll know what you’re getting into with this new series about Artemis’ younger siblings. I loved the original books, and this is a great new addition to the world in which fairies are an organised covert military force, and kids (at least the Fowls, anyway) have serious technological and political smarts. The Fowl Twins is as smart and funny as its predecessors, in is a cracking read for anyone who loves a good twist on traditional fairy lore. I’m looking forward to what comes next for The Regrettables!

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Happy reading,