Artemis

by Andy Weir

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So, this book was ok.
Not great, not bad... just ok.
As expected, at times Artemis reminded me of The Martian: we are in space (not on Mars, but on the Moon), we follow a main character pov (this time a girl in her twenties) and there's a lot (A LOT) of nerdy talk (chemistry, physics... science stuff).
In the Martian tho, all these elements worked perfectly to create a wonderful experience for the reader: the setting was well thought, Mark was a believable and compelling main character, the science talk was informative and understandable, the humor was genuine... all was great.
Here... well, the pieces don't work harmoniously: Jazz, our main character, talks a lot about Artemis, the city where she lives, but the location seems distant and not thoroughly described, the humor is at times forced and all the science talk confused me so much!
And then there's Jazz.... she's a smuggler and we follow her in one of her heists, she's also a greedy person and she's not your typical perfect snowflake we usually have for a main character. On paper, she seems cool and refreshing... but, well, I don't think she was well written. I am 26 and I kept thinking "seriously? you behave like that? I wasn't that immature even when I was a teenager!"
Let's just say she is not only unlikable and irresponsible, but she seems fake and poorly written.
That's sad, because the other characters in the story are very interesting (Dale and Svoboda were my favorite thing in the entire novel)

Anyway, 3 stars. At least it was entertaining.