Like I said in one of the other threads the book is ok, and that's about it. The thing I missed the most was humour that was present in The Martian but not here.
A bit about the book:
The main character is Jazz Bashara. She's a young woman living on this Moon base. She's ethnically an Arab from Saudi Arabia, but she came to Artemis when she was 6 yo with her father.
After a strain of bad life decisions stemming from typical teenage rebellion from rejecting her father's culture & religion and to a big degree rejecting her father as well, as well as seeking dead end relationship, she's at a low point in her life.
Working as a delivery person, she has failed at getting any education despite being talented at math and science. So she gets by with low level smuggling, while she lives in a capsule hotel (these things exists in Japan in real life), trying to save every penny of Artemis currency.
So, she takes one job that requires her to sabotage some vehicles of some big Artemis company. Of course things go wrong and she's in trouble.
I finished it today, and it went just as I expected it would.
This is basically a small thief story that is one of the most common tropes in fantasy, only here the setting is Artemis moonbase.
So yeah, mediocre, but fun and the MC is likeable enough. It's nowhere near The Martian imo.
Even though the MC is 26 yo, the book has strong YA vibes in terms of bildungsroman.
My final rating 6/10
A bit about the book:
The main character is Jazz Bashara. She's a young woman living on this Moon base. She's ethnically an Arab from Saudi Arabia, but she came to Artemis when she was 6 yo with her father.
After a strain of bad life decisions stemming from typical teenage rebellion from rejecting her father's culture & religion and to a big degree rejecting her father as well, as well as seeking dead end relationship, she's at a low point in her life.
Working as a delivery person, she has failed at getting any education despite being talented at math and science. So she gets by with low level smuggling, while she lives in a capsule hotel (these things exists in Japan in real life), trying to save every penny of Artemis currency.
So, she takes one job that requires her to sabotage some vehicles of some big Artemis company. Of course things go wrong and she's in trouble.
I finished it today, and it went just as I expected it would.
This is basically a small thief story that is one of the most common tropes in fantasy, only here the setting is Artemis moonbase.
So yeah, mediocre, but fun and the MC is likeable enough. It's nowhere near The Martian imo.
Even though the MC is 26 yo, the book has strong YA vibes in terms of bildungsroman.
My final rating 6/10