Artemis Fowl Book 7: This is a Squee Post!
Ever since I learned that there was a seventh Artemis Fowl coming out this summer (they always seem to surprise me, I guess I need to follow this kind of thing more closely!) I have been excited and nervous at the same time, wondering where Colfer planned to go with the romance after what had happened in the last book…
( Artemis Fowl #6: The Time Paradox Spoilers )
( Artemis Fowl #6: The Time Paradox Spoilers )
Kiss (p. 138):
"Holly," he said when his vision had cleared. His smile was sincere and grateful. "You saved me again."
Holly was laughing and crying at the same time, tears spilling onto Artemis's chest.
"Of course I saved you," she said. "I couldn't do without you." And because she was happy and flushed with magic, Holly leaned down and kissed Artemis, magic sparking around the contact like tiny fireworks.
Post-kiss Later (p. 168):
Artemis's head pounded, and Holly's mismatched eyes seemed to hypnotize him....But though Artemis felt hypnotized, even slightly dazed, he knew he was not mesmerized. There was no fairy magic here.
Artemis looked into those elfin eyes, and he knew that this younger, somehow more vulnerable Holly felt the same way, at this particular tangle of time and space, as he did.
After all we have been through. Or maybe because of it.
Car scene (pp. 179-181) is too long to copy out, but here are my favorite bits:
He sat there for a few minutes, concentrating on the experience. Storing it away....
It was true. Holly was different: the time stream had brought them closer together.
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