It's out here in North America! I shall now dance to God!
I finished it yesterday, couldn't put it down! I thought I would share.
SPOILERVILLE
Opal Koboi is back, after spending 11 months in a cleansing coma, which virtually separated her mind from her non-responsive state. She plotted her revenge against Artemis, Butler, Holly, Root, and Cudgeon. Of course, Cudgeon was already taken care of. She puts into action her stealthy and clever plan to bring down Holly and Commander Root, planning to kill one and make the other never want to show their face again, then kill the second. Commander Root is killed, but Holly is given the blame. At the same time, Holly rushes to save Artemis, who is in the process of stealing a priceless work of art. All his memories of the fairy People are gone, and any morals he has learned from their adventures dissapeared with them. Opal Koboi comes in and kidnaps them, spraying some sort of hormone on them to attract trolls. Then she sends them into a dilapidated belowground theme park, The Eleven Wonders of the Human World, where a great many trolls have made their home. Meanwhile, Butler sets off to Fowl Manor, not knowing that Holly has taken Artemis while Butler was unconcious. He finds an intruder in the house. Mulch Diggums has re-surfaced, and gives Butler the disk Artemis left behind. As Butler plays a single video from the past Artemis, Butler's memory is returned to him. But at the same time, present-day Artemis is thinking something to the effect of, "This cannot be real." Butler and Mulch swoop in and save them in a stolen LEP pod, courtesy of Mulch. Opal later watches the tapes of Holly and Srtemis's "defeat". Just before the rescue, the cameras go black. Soon, the foursome (Artemis, Holly, Mulch, and Butler,) learn of yet another devious plot put together by Koboi. She has placed in herself a pitutity gland, the human growth hormone. She has now passed off as a human scientists daughter, and she decides to help him along with a certain project. More specifically, reaching the center of the earth, which would exploit the fairy People. The scientist sends down a hundred million tons of molten iron ore. And the entire fairy world still thinks Opal is locked up. It's up to Artemis, Holly, Butler, and Mulch, to stop two worlds from colliding yet again. Can they do it?
There's an audio excerpt on
www.artemisfowl.com, and a text excerpt on
www.eoincolfer.com. It's available on
www.amazon.com too.