Readers response 1

Half-Moon Investigations
by Eoin Colfer
p.1-p. 290(end)
rating: 2/10

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       I bought "Half-moon investigations" at a bookstore that was going out of business and selling every single one of its books for 1 dollar. I picked up this book, because Eoin Colfer is the author of the Artemis Fowl books, The Wish List, and the Supernaturalists which are all books I loved. Now, after I've read it, I want my dollar back. Half-Moon investigations is a incredibly boring, hard to follow story with a terrible, muddled plot which focuses on a boy ( Fletcher Moon) who is a private eye who tries to solve the mystery of the missing hair of a celebrity, which leads him to investigate an arson which he is blamed for, which leads him to investigate a series of theft in the neighborhood. The catch is, the person who hired him to find the hair is a crazy 10 year old who wants to kill all boys, a fact he finds out after the arson happens. Fletcher investigates further until he figures out the culprit is 10 year old's sister, until later it is revealed that it was actually her dad. Oh, and he's investigating all this undercover pretending to be a member of the Sharkey family, who are suspects for all the crimes. Confused yet? Of course, this is only my interpretation of the book, I kind of zoned out at the end, because it was so long and unnecessarily dragged out, which, in a nutshell, was the primary problem with the book. There was also the fact that the beginning of the story read like this book was a sequel to another book( I actually checked online to make sure),and gives you a feeling as if you're missing out on part of the story. Comparing this to the Artemis Fowl books(also by Eoin Colfer), I felt that there were two things the "Fowl" books had that "Half-Moon" didn't have, which are good dialogue and plot. In Artemis Fowl, the story is filled with amusing conversations filled with wit and humor between the main characters, which keeps the plot moving at a brisk pace and making characters have their own unique. "Half-moon" lacks all of this, I never laughed or even cracked a smile at the crappy robotic dialogue, and the plot reminds me of Spider-man 3 because they both have serious action plots which seem like they are really, really bad comedies. Right now I'm trying to find something i can say about this book that's positive, and so far I've come up with nothing. Coming from a man like Eoin Colfer who gave us great books like Artemis fowl and The Wish list, this book was a 290 page pile of dirt that got boring after the 1st page and made me long for it to end. I'm glad I didn't pay full price of $16.95 for the biggest book disappointment since the 39 clues. Like I said, i'm not even sure if it was worth the buck i paid.