New Release: Highfire by Eoin Colfer
Are you familiar with Artemis Fowl? If not, I highly recommend you acquaint yourself, because if Disney does this right, the already international bestselling book series is going to be the next worldwide phenomenon à la Harry Potter.
I have a distinct memory of picking up the first Artemis Fowl book when I was in the fifth grade--and promptly putting it back on the shelf. It didn't capture my interest.
A year later, for whatever reason, I picked it up again, and this time magic struck. I was hooked. I devoured the rest of the series (up to book five, which was all that had been published at the time) and anxiously awaited the release of each subsequent book. The fifth Artemis Fowl book, The Lost Colony, was one of the few books I reread over and over again--and cried every time.
In fact, Eoin Colfer has a bit of a track record for making me misty-eyed. I shed many a tear over the ending of The Supernaturalist, his stand alone (and frankly, incredibly clever) middle grade science fiction novel. (Think the charm and wittiness of Meet the Robinsons crossed with a bit of Matrix flavor.)
Since the last Artemis Fowl book came out in 2012, I've been a bit parched for some of Colfer's work. I didn't respond at all to his other middle grade series, W.A.R.P., and I wasn't overly interested in some of his other adult stuff.
But would you check out this new release?
Eoin Colfer pitches it like this:
Want to learn more? Check out the summary below.
Also, here's a cool interview with Eoin Colfer on Goodreads (where you can also add it to your ever-growing to-read pile.)
Highfire releases Tuesday, January 28, 2020 in the US.
I have a distinct memory of picking up the first Artemis Fowl book when I was in the fifth grade--and promptly putting it back on the shelf. It didn't capture my interest.
A year later, for whatever reason, I picked it up again, and this time magic struck. I was hooked. I devoured the rest of the series (up to book five, which was all that had been published at the time) and anxiously awaited the release of each subsequent book. The fifth Artemis Fowl book, The Lost Colony, was one of the few books I reread over and over again--and cried every time.
In fact, Eoin Colfer has a bit of a track record for making me misty-eyed. I shed many a tear over the ending of The Supernaturalist, his stand alone (and frankly, incredibly clever) middle grade science fiction novel. (Think the charm and wittiness of Meet the Robinsons crossed with a bit of Matrix flavor.)
Since the last Artemis Fowl book came out in 2012, I've been a bit parched for some of Colfer's work. I didn't respond at all to his other middle grade series, W.A.R.P., and I wasn't overly interested in some of his other adult stuff.
But would you check out this new release?
Eoin Colfer pitches it like this:
Highfire tells the story of the last dragon who has survived by hiding in the Louisiana swamps with the alligators. He passes his day with cable TV and vodka martinis until his peace is destroyed by a tearaway Cajun boy and a crooked constable who is determined to kill them both.I have a warm, giddy feeling that this is going to be the perfect progression for the now-adult readers of his Artemis Fowl series.
Want to learn more? Check out the summary below.
Also, here's a cool interview with Eoin Colfer on Goodreads (where you can also add it to your ever-growing to-read pile.)
Highfire releases Tuesday, January 28, 2020 in the US.
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From the New York Times bestselling author of the Artemis Fowl series comes a hilarious and high-octane adult novel about a vodka-drinking, Flashdance-loving dragon who lives an isolated life in the bayous of Louisiana—and the raucous adventures that ensue when he crosses paths with a fifteen-year-old troublemaker on the run from a crooked sheriff.In the days of yore, he flew the skies and scorched angry mobs—now he hides from swamp tour boats and rises only with the greatest reluctance from his Laz-Z-Boy recliner. Laying low in the bayou, this once-magnificent fire breather has been reduced to lighting Marlboros with nose sparks, swilling Absolut in a Flashdance T-shirt, and binging Netflix in a fishing shack. For centuries, he struck fear in hearts far and wide as Wyvern, Lord Highfire of the Highfire Eyrie—now he goes by Vern. However...he has survived, unlike the rest. He is the last of his kind, the last dragon. Still, no amount of vodka can drown the loneliness in his molten core. Vern’s glory days are long gone. Or are they?A canny Cajun swamp rat, young Everett “Squib” Moreau does what he can to survive, trying not to break the heart of his saintly single mother. He’s finally decided to work for a shady smuggler—but on his first night, he witnesses his boss murdered by a crooked constable.Regence Hooke is not just a dirty cop, he’s a despicable human being—who happens to want Squib’s momma in the worst way. When Hooke goes after his hidden witness with a grenade launcher, Squib finds himself airlifted from certain death by…a dragon?The swamp can make strange bedfellows, and rather than be fried alive so the dragon can keep his secret, Squib strikes a deal with the scaly apex predator. He can act as his go-between (aka familiar)—fetch his vodka, keep him company, etc.—in exchange for protection from Hooke. Soon the three of them are careening headlong toward a combustible confrontation. There’s about to be a fiery reckoning, in which either dragons finally go extinct—or Vern’s glory days are back.A triumphant return to the genre-bending fantasy that Eoin Colfer is so well known for, Highfire is an effortlessly clever and relentlessly funny tour-de-force of comedy and action.
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