{"id":35161,"date":"2018-07-26T22:56:42","date_gmt":"2018-07-27T02:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=35161"},"modified":"2021-09-11T13:13:54","modified_gmt":"2021-09-11T17:13:54","slug":"review-of-artemis-by-andy-weir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=35161","title":{"rendered":"Review of Artemis, by Andy Weir"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Artemis<\/em><\/p>\n

by Andy Weir
\nperformed by Rosario Dawson<\/p>\n

Brilliance Audio, 2017. 8 hours, 59 minutes on 8 discs.
\nStarred Review<\/p>\n

I got to read a novel for adults! The Newbery committee decided to avoid listening to audiobooks of eligible books, since we don\u2019t want the skill of the readers to influence our opinions one way or the other \u2013 so when I drive to and from work, I do not listen to children\u2019s books. And Artemis<\/em> is indeed a book for adults \u2013 there is plenty of profanity and sexual innuendoes.<\/p>\n

Jazz Bashara, the main character of this book, is not as likable as the main character of The Martian<\/a><\/em>, the author\u2019s first brilliant book. At least not for me. I\u2019m a rule follower. Jazz is the opposite of that. She\u2019s surviving in her home town on the moon as a smuggler.<\/p>\n

But then she gets a chance to change that completely, if she\u2019ll pull off a sabotage job for a billionaire. But then something goes wrong, and then the billionaire gets murdered, and to save her own life she ends up planning a much bigger job.<\/p>\n

Like The Martian<\/em>, this book is full of suspense and full of authentic details about the technology. Artemis is a city on the moon, built in domes named after the men of the first manned mission to the moon. The book is full of details about how life works on the moon, and the job Jazz needs to pull off can only be done using science. The problems she confronts have to do with science, too.<\/p>\n

There are also details about how the economy works in a frontier town. And law enforcement. Even the things Jazz smuggles \u2013 like flammable items \u2013 make sense in this near future world the author has built so carefully. (I like that it\u2019s the Kenya Space Agency that built Artemis, for a fun little detail.)<\/p>\n

So it\u2019s a book completely different from the author\u2019s first, but it\u2019s also full of life-and-death science scenarios. And I tend to be extremely picky \u2013 but it never disrupted my suspension of disbelief even once.<\/p>\n

Buy from Amazon.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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Source: This review is based on a library audiobook from Fairfax County Public Library.<\/p>\n

Disclaimer: I am a professional librarian, but I maintain my website and blogs on my own time. The views expressed are solely my own, and in no way represent the official views of my employer or of any committee or group of which I am part.<\/p>\n

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