The Time Paradox (1-391)

I have just finished reading the book Artemis Fowl The Time Paradox, a very interesting science fiction book written by Eoin Colfer, and is the sixth book in the Artemis Fowl series. It is a book about a young genius who has to travel back in time to extract the brain fluid of a silky lemur in Africa that is extinct in the time that they are in. He needs this brain fluid because if he will not do so his mother will die, as she has contracted a rare illness. Artemis has an elf named Holly to help him out, who has magical powers.

Here is a short section that clearly describes a lot about the character Holly, who is also know by her full name Holly Short. Holly is part of a race of elves who are a very advanced species, as they have nuclear batteries, and extremely powerful weapons. These elves also are so advanced that they have evolved to have "magical powers." Now these powers are not the magic that you think when you see Harry Potter, its more like magic as an energy that can be use do many things such as healing.

Even though Holly was ten pounds lighter than Artemis, she came to her senses before him. She was glad to be awake, as her dream had been terrible. While she was asleep, her knees and elbows struck the metal walls of the Bentley trunk, and she imagined herself in an LEP submarine. Holly lay huddled in the dark, swallowing and blinking to conquer the phobia. Her mother had been mortally injured in a metal box, and now she was inside one. And it was thoughts of her mother that finally calmed Holly. She opened her eyes and explored the confined space with her vision and fingertips ... they were inside a vehicle.

This section is about the time when Holly and Artemis had been deeply drugged, because they had been captured. They are in the back of a van by the people who had captured them going to try to interrogate them an hold them back from doing anything. This passage also tells us much about Artemis and Holly. As we can see holly is very light, but however recovers from drugs much more quickly than Artemis does showing to us her very strong immune system. We also see a reason for why Holly should be scarred, as her mom had been injured before in a metal box, just like the one that she is in now. Finally, it tells us that Holly seems to be very attached to her mother as there are many references to Holly s mother.

Colfer, Eoin. The Time Paradox (Artemis Fowl, Book 6). New York: Hyperion, 2008. Print.