59 pages
English language
Published 2017
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. But everything changes when Jazz sees the chance to commit the perfect crime, with a reward too lucrative to turn down.
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.
