Title: Artemis
Author: Andy Weir
Pages: 320
Publisher: Ebury Digital
Release Date: 14th November 2017
Blurb from Goodreads:
Jazz Bashara is a criminal.
Well, sort of. Life on Artemis, the first and only city on the moon, is tough if you're not a rich tourist or an eccentric billionaire. So smuggling in the occasional harmless bit of contraband barely counts, right? Not when you've got debts to pay and your job as a porter barely covers the rent.
Everything changes when Jazz sees the chance to commit the perfect crime, with a reward too lucrative to turn down. But pulling off the impossible is just the start of Jazz's problems, as she learns that she's stepped square into a conspiracy for control of Artemis itself - and that now, her only chance at survival lies in a gambit even more unlikely than the first.
Well, sort of. Life on Artemis, the first and only city on the moon, is tough if you're not a rich tourist or an eccentric billionaire. So smuggling in the occasional harmless bit of contraband barely counts, right? Not when you've got debts to pay and your job as a porter barely covers the rent.
Everything changes when Jazz sees the chance to commit the perfect crime, with a reward too lucrative to turn down. But pulling off the impossible is just the start of Jazz's problems, as she learns that she's stepped square into a conspiracy for control of Artemis itself - and that now, her only chance at survival lies in a gambit even more unlikely than the first.
Review:
*I
received a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. Thanks
to Penguin Random House UK, Ebury Publishing and NetGalley*
Jasmine "Jazz" Bashara is a smuggler on the Moon city Artemis.
Jazz's
job as a porter makes it easy for her to smuggle contraband for the
residents of Artemis. When she's offered an opportunity to make a lot of
money by committing a crime, Jazz accepts.
But things soon become more complicated and Jazz finds herself in a deadly situation.
I LOVED The Martian so I was really excited to hear that Andy Weir had a new book coming out that was set on the Moon. The Moon!
Unfortunately, I have mixed feelings about Artemis and am disappointed.
Oh,
Jazz. I so wanted to like you, but I'm not sure I do. It felt to me
that Jazz was meant to be a female version of Mark Watney (the
protagonist in The Martian). But unlike Watney, I didn't find Jazz funny
and I didn't like her anywhere near as much as I liked Watney.
The plot was okay. There was some action and interesting science, but it didn't grip me and I was a little bored at times.
Unfortunately, Artemis left me feeling disappointed and underwhelmed.
