I accidentally read books 3 and 2 of the Artemis Fowl series out of order, but that's okay. Eoin Colfer's series finds Artemis on the hunt to rescue his father in "The Arctic Incident", which he does, while helping the underworld people quell a goblin rebellion staged by the evil Opal Koboi, who is going to reappear in book 4. Using fairy technology he pilfered, Artemis creates a magical box that is light years ahead of any technology on earth. He shows it to wealthy technology mogul Spiro with the thought that Spiro will pay him to keep his invention under wraps in "The Eternity Code". Instead Spiro steals the box and tries to kill Artemis and Butler. Holly has to help him get out of the mess he's gotten himself into, after he swears this is his last shady enterprise. We'll see.
A bunch more of the PLL series by Sara Shepherd. "Wicked", book 5, finds the girls still receiving emails and texts from A, even though Mona is dead. Who is new A? Ian has been arrested and is awaiting trial for Ali's murder, even though he is vehemently protesting his innocence. The books ends with the girls finding Ian's dead body in the wood. Book 6, "Killer", picks up with the girls having to struggle for credibility when Ian's body disappears and all of Rosewood thinks they are making everything up for attention. The books ends with Spencer's barn being lit on fire with everyone but Aria in it. They manage to escape from the flames and find someone--is it Ali?--in the woods. In "Heartless", book 7, more secrets are revealed when we find out Spencer was Ali's half sister. Hanna ends up in a mental hospital after her evil soon to be stepsister convinces her dad she's on the verge of a breakdown. Emily hides out with an Amish family, looking for answers on a seemingly wild goose chase A sends her on. A new suspect, Billy Ford, is arrested for Ali's murder after Jenna is also murdered and it turns out Billy was a construction worker at both girl's homes during the time of their deaths. This series is fun and kind of trashy, but it really is amazing how well she's making these secrets and revelations fit together. I'm impressed, anyway :)
And in a little break from PLL, Monica Ali's "Untold Story" imagines what might have happened if Princess Diana didn't really die back in that car crash in Paris in 1997. Ali has Diana living in a quiet American mid-west town under the name of Lydia, after faking her death to escape the paparazzi that she felt was ruining her life and the lives of her boys. Lydia has a hard time making friends and letting people into her life because of her devastating secret, and she's always looking over her shoulder, paranoid someone might find her out. Then the past catches up with her in the form of a photographer who used to chase her, and she worries her carefully crafted life will blow up in her face. It was an interesting idea about how desperate she might have been to escape the life she was leading and how she could have made it happen.
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