Artemis

author: Andy Weir
name: Wayne
average rating: 3.72
book published: 2017
rating: 4
read at: 2017/11/21
date added: 2017/11/21
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'Artemis' by Andy Weir is his follow up to 'The Martian.' I loved that book, and this one wasn't too bad either.

Jazz Bashara lives on the moon in a city named Artemis. The city is made up of a series of domes named after famous astronauts. There is a booming tourism business to visit the moon landing site nearby. But Jazz is struggling to make money. On the legal side, she is a courier. On the criminal side, she smuggles things in from Earth for citizens of Artemis, including a crazily wealthy client who likes his cigars. He proposes a job for Jazz that will make her a lot of money. If you think everything will go perfectly, you didn't read 'The Martian.'

Comparisons are inevitable. Mark Watney and Jazz Bashara are both wise-cracking protagonists who are also very good at solving problems. Mark does so with more discipline and rigor, Jazz, less so, but in both cases this is in keeping with her character. Mark is more of a loner by circumstance and choice, but Jazz has a whole group of friends, enemies, and former ex-lovers.

I loved 'The Martian' as well as the movie that was made from it. This book took me a bit longer to get in to. I really didn't care for Jazz's particular brand of coarse humor, and, I felt, it took away from the character. Still the book gets to a point where the narrative whips along and I found myself turning pages wondering what was going to happen. I wasn't disappointed.

I received a review copy of this ebook from Crown Publishing and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for allowing me to review this ebook.


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