Book Review :: The Fowl Twins, by Eoin Colfer

The Fowl Twins by Eoin Colfer
ISBN: 0008324824
Series: The Fowl Twins #1
Published by HarperCollins
on 2019-11-05
Genres: Childrens, Fantasy, Middle Grade, Science Fiction
Pages: 432
Source: HarperCollins NZ
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Myles and Beckett Fowl are twins but the two boys are wildly different. Beckett is blonde, messy and sulks whenever he has to wear clothes. Myles is impeccably neat, has an IQ of 170, and 3D prints a fresh suit every day – just like his older brother, Artemis Fowl.

A week after their eleventh birthday the twins are left in the care of house security system, NANNI, for a single night. In that time, they befriend a troll on the run from a nefarious nobleman and an interrogating nun both of whom need the magical creature for their own gain . . .

Prepare for an epic adventure in which The Fowl Twins and their new troll friend escape, get shot at, kidnapped, buried, arrested, threatened, killed (temporarily) . . . and discover that the strongest bond in the world is not the one forged by covalent electrons in adjacent atoms, but the one that exists between a pair of twins.

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My thoughts on The Fowl Twins

Eoin Colfer is at it again with another book series beginning with The Fowl Twins. If you’re familiar with the Artemis Fowl series by Colfer then you’ll know that the main character in those, Artemis (surprise surprise) has twin brothers. As one might suspect, The Fowl Twins is about those brothers, Myles and Beckett and their adventures as they experience the fairy world for the first time.

I actually received this book at the end of 2019, but realised that I hadn’t actually finished reading the Artemis Fowl series yet. So this year I made sure I had caught up with the two books I hadn’t read yet, before diving into this one. It’s probably not that necessary, but it definitely helped that I knew the ending of the Artemis Fowl series before I started this one. Some of the characters overlap from time to time, and of course there is some background knowledge that is beneficial, and that you’d have if you read the Artemis Fowl series.

“Fowl and fairy, friends forever.”

The new characters were very fun, and while the characters from the first series will have a special, nostalgic place in my heart, I can definitely see these new characters becoming ones I look forward to reading about in the coming books. Once again, the villain in the story is slightly ridiculous and a bit petty, which is pretty classic for these books. Myles and Beckett Fowl are brilliant, Myles being an Artemis mini-me and Beckett being more muscle than brains. They’re a hilarious combination.

Once again, the story is very fun, and very Colfer. His style for these middle-grade books is very quirky, and it’s a joy to read. I am aware that I am in my late 20s now and I’m reading a middle-grade book, but it’s still enjoyable, no matter what your age. I do think, however, that three middle-grade books in one month is too many, and I really should have spaced them out a little better.

Have you read The Fowl Twins yet? What did you think?

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Thanks to HarperCollins NZ for a copy of this book. I received it for free in exchange for an honest review. All thoughts and opinions are my own.