The
Chinese cover art has been doing the rounds on tumblr recently and
just looking at them makes me remember how much I loved that series
(and realise how bad the covers were in this country)...
I
mean, its a YA series where the young protagonist is a criminal
mastermind. Okay, one who tends towards the heroic in the end but he
is still a criminal. A criminal who starts the series trying to
extort money out of the faeries. I am perfectly serious: he finds out
that the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow is, in fact, the fey
folk's hostage fund.
I
like Artemis because, at the end of the day, his redemption arc
doesn't stop him from being a criminal. Even when he's firmly on the
side of the angels (well, of the faeries, centaurs, gnomes and
dwarfs, at least) he is still, at his heart, a criminal. He steals
things, he comes up with elaborate schemes, he's arrogant and in
spite of that he's still on a journey to becoming a better person.
Just
about the only complaint I have about the series is that Juliet
Butler disappears for whole books at a time when I would have loved
to see more of her and Holly Short interacting. They had a great
little caper plot in... The Opal Deception,
I think?
Huh,
all the more reason to reread the series, then.
No comments:
Post a Comment