I didn’t remember liking this as a kid, but wanted to check it out again during my reread project, since people still praise this series. It's as bad as I remember - maybe worse. I didn't hate it! I just didn't like it. As an adult, I just can’t with Artemis. He is the smartest most specialist boy to ever exist! He has a special fighting butler and all of the tech and a giant mansion and he's the smartest criminal mastermind to ever exist. He's able to think 12 steps ahead of everyone because he's so smart. It's just feels like it's written to impress pre-teen boys (which it probably is). The author is just trying so hard to make him cool and to drop a bunch of funny one liners - but I did not mesh with the writing style or humor at all. It's full of lines like "You didn't have to be a genius to figure it out, even though he was." The female characters weren't treated very well either. I have no interest in continuing on with this series.