Supernaturalist Book Views
Lucien 'Ditto' Bonn - A Bartoli Baby being the product of the gene splicing experiments done by a Dr. Bartoli 27 years before the story began. He suffers several mutations because of the experiments such as arrested physical development (Ditto is 28 years old but appears to be about six.) Ditto has healing hands (the ability to take the pain from a person or animal's body) and is a spotter. He pointed out to the rest of the Supernaturalists near the book's end that the parasites actually feed on human pain, not on human life force as thought earlier (Ditto was caught by Mona deliberately cutting his finger and offering the pain to a parasite, proving that he knew this secret all along but never told anyone). He is the medic of the group, and does not fight the Parasites, claiming he is a pacifist.
Splinter - A former Supernaturalist that pre-existed Cosmo. Not much is known about Splinter, and he is never actually in the book, and only mentioned in passing. He is used as an example of how spotters can become terrified of their visions of the Parasites. He wears glasses with blue filters that hide the Parasites from his eyes, and he never takes them off.
On February 31, 2009, Eoin Colfer released a rough idea for the plot of the sequel, working title, The Supernaturalist 2. His idea goes, Well, the main idea is, well, at the end of book one, Stefan dies, but, being that they can see supernatural beings, in the second book, Stefan appears to Cosmo and tells him that they're [Stefan and other souls] all stuck in Limbo and can't get through to the afterlife, because something terrible is happening there, so it's an environmental thing as usual that's blocking the passageway to... forever, so they have to take care of that. But at the same time, they've got the Myishi Corporation trying to track them down. [1]
Eoin Colfer is a young peoples writer and I enjoyed reading his first Artemis Fowl book (I=’m about to read the second Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident). However, I guess I was expecting something more sophisticated when I bought the audio book for The Supernaturalist. I found it in the Sci-Fi section, and assumed it was an Adult Sci-Fi book. I realize now from Eoin Colferc’s website that the book is meant for 8-12 year olds!