Uploaded March 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Welcome! Today we’re looking at Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer, one of the all-time greatest Middle Grade books in existence. This series is about Artemis, a boy genius and evil criminal mastermind, who tries to outsmart a race of fairies.

It has complex stories and brilliant puzzles to solve, and deals with themes of good and evil, greed and family. It’s everything you could want in a Middle Grade book. (Also we’re just going to ignore the movie entirely.)

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00:00 Intro
01:33 The Concept
02:39 Fairy Tales
04:26 Artemis the Anti-Villain
07:02 Artemis the Genius
10:30 Complex Plots
13:26 Maybe too complex????
14:27 Characters
16:31 The Arch Enemy
17:37 The Silliness
19:30 Serious Themes
20:58 The Sequel Series
21:25 Content Warning
21:55 Is the Ending worth it?
22:10 How much should you try?
22:46 Outro