Week 26 Review: Artemis

From Goodreads:

The bestselling author of The Martian returns with an irresistible new near-future thriller—a heist story set on the moon.

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 her 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 riskier than the first. 

My Review:
I really enjoyed this book! I really enjoyed The Martian, and I was looking forward to this one. It is a pretty short read, but I had a bit of trouble getting into it at first, because knowing a character was making poor decisions is one of my buttons, but then the action picked up and I got over it, so that was good!

Jazz was a really interesting character. She was really smart, but she held a menial job. So she turned to smuggling on the side. She has great potential, but she doesn't want to use it, to really have it. But she does want to be rich. Which causes her to make some pretty poor decisions.

I really enjoyed the second half of this book, she had made the wrong decisions, and now she was making some right ones, and dealing with the fallout of the past ones. I enjoyed watching her learn to trust and rely on others, and deal with her issues.

Also, I really enjoyed the little interludes, of Jazz as a child emailing with a child on earth, and as they grew up, we got to see how Jazz got to this point, see her history, and why her situation is as it is when this book starts, as well as the state of her relationships.

Most of the things that we learned in this book were science based, what with being on the Moon and all. But there were also some economic lessons in this book, mainly in the end, when the mayor explains the future of Artemis. So that was interesting to read!

I really enjoyed this book, it was another sci fi adventure book and I had a great time reading it!

Author: Andy Weir
Read: June 26th, 2020
Source: Ebook.bike
Reason Why: Loved his first book, and it's a SAC 2020 Book and a Sophomore Challenge Book!
Publisher: Crown
Published: November 14th 2017

5/5 Hearts

5/5 Books

5/5 Stars