As an avid Artemisian it's hard to believe that I hadn't read this yet. It was quite interesting, too - I think I liked the first story more than the second but the history side of things is often underplayed in the main sequence so worked well here.

This sort of tie-in gets lost when you listen to audio books; a real shame as Nathaniel Parker (who narrates the unabridged novels) does so with such aplomb. It would have been nice if LEPrecon had been included as an audio bonus with [b:The Opal Deception|114954|Artemis Fowl The Opal Deception (Artemis Fowl, #4)|Eoin Colfer|http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51BtnsPK31L.SL75.jpg|1537541] and The Seventh Dwarf with [b:The Eternity Code|227865|Artemis Fowl The Eternity Code (Artemis Fowl, #3)|Eoin Colfer|http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51nZ-nvYiFL.SL75.jpg|1333018] but I suppose that's little more than wishful thinking.