The Fowl Twins

About The Fowl Twins

Myles and Beckett Fowl are eleven-year-old twins -- and Artemis Fowl's much younger brothers -- who are almost comically mismatched: Myles is a fastidious, hyper-logical genius who wears a bow tie and speaks like a tiny professor, while Beckett is chaotic, feral, and communicates largely through sound effects. When the fairy world's magical convict escort goes wrong and dumps a dangerous shapeshifting fugitive on the Fowl family's doorstep, the twins are pulled into exactly the kind of fairy-adjacent crisis their older brother used to handle -- except without Artemis's criminal genius or LEPrecon backup to rely on.

Eoin Colfer returns to the Fowl family and fairy-world mythology he built across eight Artemis Fowl novels, but shifts the comic register: where Artemis was a scheming antihero slowly growing a conscience, Myles and Beckett are goofier, younger, and more openly a double act, closer to slapstick buddy comedy than heist thriller. The fairy politics, LEP operatives, and magical technology of the original series carry over, giving longtime fans a familiar world seen through a very different lens.

It's a natural next stop for Artemis Fowl readers who want more time in Colfer's fairy-world setting with a lighter, sillier tone and a new generation of Fowls at the center.

How to read this series

Read the three novels in publication order: The Fowl Twins, The Fowl Twins Deny All Charges, The Fowl Twins Get What They Deserve. It's a continuous three-book story that should be read in sequence.

You don't strictly need to have read Artemis Fowl first -- the trilogy explains what a newcomer needs to know about the fairy world -- but familiarity with the original eight-book series adds significant depth, since Myles and Beckett are Artemis's younger brothers and the fairy-world politics they encounter build on that series' foundation.