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Pros
Jazz bashara is a porter on the moon city of artemis. She also has a profitable sideline as a smuggler of contraband items. Andy weir does it again with artemis - storyteller at its best. This novel has a special place on my shelf with the rest of wei... Read More
Main protagonist is instantly likable. The schemes pile up with twists and turns galore. The heroine uses science and smarts to not die not kill the city.
This book is amazing, captivating and well written. A bit predictable/formulaic but still exciting.
Cons
The plot is lame. The heroine is unlikable. Even the setup is ridiculous. I get that weir was trying for some type of anti-heroine *, but he struggles to write female characters with any depth.
If you're going to overthrow a billion-dollar syndicate run by the mob, why not hire a cigar smuggler to do it for you? There was a cop. Even if jazz's sabotage mission succeeds, she has left tons of glove prints at the site.
Artemis is not the martian. By the end, however the book expects us to believe that the only city on the moon housing thousands of people uses a full oxygen atmosphere despite smuggling into the city being endemic. Artemis is a silly story with silly ... Read More
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Quality
Charaters are nicely developed and there are a few twists
Great side characters too and really great thought out world building
Unfortunately newer vehicles don’t have cd drives so i have the additional chore of ripping and putting on the ipod
His engineering passages ring true but mostly provide authenticity to the setting
Price
She has big dreams but those dreams cost money
Competitiveness
Then she is given an 34opportunity34 to make an enormous amount of money but of course its illegal and will be another mark aga... Read More
The reviews comparing artemis to the martian are accurate it is very similar
3 the “sciency” stuff that weir’s known for just wasn’t as compelling to me in this one
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- This product had a total of 42,508 reviews as of our last analysis date on Apr 18 2024.
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The main character jazz was a bit too 34super hero34 for my tastes
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Artemis wasnt my favorite of his stories but i would still recommend it
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It couldve been better but a fast paced story and decent character building
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Not nearly as good as the martian but that was one heck of a novel
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Once it gets going it just keeps accelerating
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Smart snarky but not always likable jasmine has never lived up to her potential
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Even though she excelled in school she chose a career path that disappointed her father
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Thinking about the 1967 apollo 1 command module fire i tripped over the concept of a pure o2 atmosphere on moon base
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