O Menino Prodígio do Crime

Paperback, 288 pages

Portuguese language

Published Sept. 25, 2001 by Record.

OCLC Number:
52391453

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4 stars (9 reviews)

Artemis é o único herdeiro do clã Fowl, uma lendária família de personagens do submundo, célebres na arte da trapaça. O garoto imagina um plano para recuperar a fortuna de sua família, após o desaparecimento misterioso de seu pai. Seu plano poderia derrubar civilizações e mergulhar o planeta numa guerra entre espécies.

O garoto começa a pôr seu plano em prática em Ho Chi Minh, a calorenta capital do Vietnã, em pleno século XXI. Lá, aliando tecnologia de ponta a seus dons criminosos, ele chantageia uma fada decadente para roubar seu Livro, objeto que permitirá desvendar os segredos do Povo das Fadas e descobrir onde esse povo guarda uma enorme reserva de ouro. O único problema é que o Livro está em gnomês — o idioma das fadas, um alfabeto ancestral, jamais decifrado por um humano. De volta à sua segura mansão na Irlanda, ele trabalha freneticamente, com a ajuda …

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Frustrating and too predictable.

2 stars

For a younger audience, I think this book does quite well. Though, it is interesting that it's geared towards 10-13 year olds, but the vocabulary is a bit cumbersome for many of them. Despite this, it was good for my sixth grade unit on science fiction (and my students enjoyed it a lot).

It's kind of dull, though. It's highly predictable, with the events that could've been interesting being downgraded significantly. Colfer couldn't seem to decide whether or not he wanted to focus on the characters or the events, so he just... half-focused on both and wrote something that had an interesting concept but didn't execute it very well.

There's a lot of telling about the characters, which is an issue I have. This is particularly true of how intelligent Artemis is. Artemis is so smart. He's really smart. Butler just has to believe him because he's super smart. He …

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