My rating: 2 of 5 stars
Ever had a bad day?
Try having one on the moon...
WELCOME TO ARTEMIS. The first city on the moon. Population 2,000. Mostly tourists. Some criminals.
Jazz Bashara is one of the criminals. She lives in a poor area of Artemis and subsidises her work as a porter with smuggling contraband onto the moon. But it's not enough. So when she's offered the chance to make a lot of money she jumps at it.
But though planning a crime in 1/6th gravity may be more fun, it's a lot more dangerous.
So, where to start? Well firstly Artemis does have a good plot, piss poorly executed, but good. The main problem for me is that our protagonist, Jazz Bashara, is supposed to be a Saudi, Muslim woman brought up in Artemis who works as a part-time porter and full time smuggler yet her inner voice (and outer voice for that matter) sound exactly like Mark Watney the white, American, male, science dude from Weir's previous novel, The Martian. Secondly the story is written in the same manner as The Martian, understandable as it's the same author, but it really doesn't work for what is at its essence a heist story.
Anyway enough about the story, Rosario Dawson, (Ahsoka Tano in The Madalorian and Claire Temple/Night Nurse in the Netflix Marvel series) narrates the story. As far as I can tell this is her first outing as an audiobook narrator and to some extent it shows. Her reading of the story is competent enough but a little dry for some of the high octane action scenes. It's the dialogue where she shines as is only to be expected of an actress of her quality.
Honestly I didn't enjoy this book but looking at the reviews on Goodreads many others have. If my opinion is important to you I'd say give it a miss but I'll let you decide.
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