Nook & Cranny reviewed Artemis by Andy Weir
Entertaining read
5 stars
Definitely different from The Martian and Project Hail Mary which are literally one-man shows. Nonetheless quite a fun to read about the witty Jazz and her friends.
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334 pages
English language
Published July 3, 2018 by Ballantine Books.
Definitely different from The Martian and Project Hail Mary which are literally one-man shows. Nonetheless quite a fun to read about the witty Jazz and her friends.
Read the ebook
This was fine. I found the protagonist irritating and had trouble telling many of the other characters apart.
I think part of what I loved about Weir’s other books was that the main character was busy problem-solving things in interesting ways and this was mostly an emotionally immature non-astronaut having feelings. Weir clearly struggled to write a woman of color character and it comes off as awkward and cringey (though not nearly as bad as some other male authors 🙄) like, what was with the <spoiler>reusable condom</spoiler> subplot?
Skip this one.