The bestselling author of The Martian returns with an irresistible new near-future thriller—a heist story set on the moon.
Jasmine Bashara never signed up to be a hero. She just wanted to get rich.
Not crazy, eccentric-billionaire rich, like many of the visitors to her hometown of Artemis, humanity’s first and only lunar colony. Just rich enough to move out of her coffin-sized apartment and eat something better than flavored algae. Rich enough to pay off a debt she’s owed for a long time.
So when a chance at a huge score finally comes her way, Jazz can’t say no. Sure, it requires her to graduate from small-time smuggler to full-on criminal mastermind. And it calls for a particular combination of cunning, technical skills, and large explosions—not to mention sheer brazen swagger. But Jazz has never run into a challenge her intellect can’t handle, and she figures she’s got the ‘swagger’ part down.
The trouble is, engineering the perfect crime is just the start of Jazz’s problems. Because her little heist is about to land her in the middle of a conspiracy for control of Artemis itself.
Trapped between competing forces, pursued by a killer and the law alike, even Jazz has to admit she’s in way over her head. She’ll have to hatch a truly spectacular scheme to have a chance at staying alive and saving her city.
Jazz is no hero, but she is a very good criminal.
That’ll have to do.
Propelled by its heroine’s wisecracking voice, set in a city that’s at once stunningly imagined and intimately familiar, and brimming over with clever problem-solving and heist-y fun, Artemis is another irresistible brew of science, suspense, and humor from #1 bestselling author Andy Weir.
Originally posted at https://alexandramtaylor.com/book-review-artemis-by-andy-weir/
Artemis is the first of Andy Weir’s books that I’ve read so, perhaps it’s a good thing I can’t compare it to The Martian like many other people seem to have done so. Set in the future, on our Moon’s colony, the book follows Jazz’s life as she continually fails to live up to the expectations others have for her. Except she still manages to succeed?
She’s young but determined but also willing to do nearly (emphasis on nearly) anything to get the Slugs (the moon’s currency) that she’s after.
Except of course not everything goes to plan and she ends up on the run and in a tiny base where nearly everyone knows everyone that’s really hard thing to do.
It was a predictable read and an easy one at that but it was fun.
It was also very lazily written at times. The MC is a female but she is very stereotypical female and while being a Muslim she doesn’t follow her religion to the point that she doesn’t know the basics that she really should know.
I really wanted to like this book a lot more than I actually did.
