| Author: | Eoin Colfer |
| Publisher: | Disney-Hyperion |
| Pub Date: | October 19, 2021 |
| Pages: | 340 pages |
| Isbn: | 9781368075671 |
| Isbn Note: | Hardcover |
The Fowl Twins Get What They Deserve is the third and final book of The Fowl Twins series written by Eoin Colfer, the second cycle of The Fowl Adventures. It was released on October 19, 2021, and is preceded by The Fowl Twins Deny All Charges.
Myles and Beckett find themselves at a pathologists' conference in London when Lord Teddy Bleedham-Drye, in his unending quest to kill the twins, attacks Myles with his weaponized jet. In the ensuing scuffle, Teddy is killed, but Myles isn't convinced. Myles, Beckett & Lazuli then visit a mortuary, meet ghosts and encounter clones. It all ends in an epic showdown in the Scilly Isles between the Regrettables (Myles, Beckett, Whistle Blower & Lazuli) and Teddy.
The Fowl Twins Get What They Deserve was ordered by Disney-Hyperion in March 2021.[2]
Kirkus Reviews wrote, "Like its bestselling progenitors, a nonstop spinoff afroth with high-tech, spectacular magic, and silly business."[3]
The Children's Book Review wrote,
Bursting with fascinatingly imaginative Bond-style technology, fairy magic, mythical creatures, espionage, crime, and Colfer’s characteristically witty use of language, The Fowl Twins Get What They Deserve is funny, exciting, and original. It is the blending of genres—spy thriller meets fantasy novel and science fiction, all rolled into one—that makes these books so enticing, inviting readers to think outside the box about narrative and fiction.[4]
Jason Ball described the novel as "Colfer at his zaniest, [and] having a blast playing in the bountiful Fowl sandbox [with] sheer outrageous fun", while "ostensibly [providing] an ending to the entire 20-year Fowl chronicles",[5] while Laughing Place praised how "Colfer ha[d] done the impossible by revisiting a familiar world, but somehow made the world anew for readers", while "wind[ing] the story tight [and] enabl[ing] characters to grow in their maturity [and] brotherly moments [to] ground this fantastical story."[6]
During the book tour for The Fowl Twins Get What They Deserve on November 11, 2021, Eoin Colfer confirmed that while the novel was intended to be the final The Fowl Twins novel, that he intended to write a new novel in the future in a "black-and-white [morally], superviolent" third cycle of The Fowl Adventures; following "the grown-up version of Artemis [as] a magnate [who has] gone over to the dark side a bit too far" following his return from space, featuring the multiverse (i.e. the alternate timeline from The Time Paradox, lacking an Opal Koboi as of the events of The Last Guardian), and exploring the romantic relationship between Artemis Fowl II and Holly Short teased in previous novels, Colfer compared the proposed novel to Mark Millar's Old Man Logan and his own 2020 novel Highfire.[7] [8] [9]