I enjoyed them, especially Svoboda, but I am a sucker for nerdy, clutzy scientists. Jazz could have easily been a man, and it wouldn’t have made much of a difference, which I don’t like.Īs for the rest of the characters, I found them all to be charming, but there wasn’t a lot of depth to them. It wasn’t that great, but it wasn’t that awful. There were stuff that felt really like they were written by a man, some slight annoyances that got on my nerves at times, but I did not find them so awful to be unbearable. I don’t think Weir did an awful job at writing a female character, but I don’t think he did a good job either. I did feel like she was too similar to Mark, with the constant jokes and that sort of the same way of dealing with issues. She is kind of your Mark Watney, but cruder and more awful to people. I personally like characters like that, but I think that a lot of people would have issues with how Jazz treats people. She is loyal and really smart, kind of a jerk, but in a good and an endearing way. She is spunky and really funny, and seems super competent. I loved the setting and it’s definitely my favorite part of the book. The city is vibrant, it has like a rich and a poor neighborhood, it has a park, it has it’s own economy and it’s all just super amazing. It feels true and that’s the only thing that matters. Weir uses a lot of really technical terms to explain his world and his plot, and he just does it in a really authentic way, so you don’t really care if it’s actually true. The way he manages to do that is through his signature “sciency” writing.
He can make you believe anything, and I really appreciate that. I find that to be a general characteristic of Weir’s writing. Everything seemed to make sense, it seemed real and like he was just explaining a thing that exists in the real world. I found the city on the moon to be completely believable.
The highlight of this book is the way Weir wrote Artemis. She is a petty criminal (meaning mostly a smuggler), but she gets tangled in a very large scoped heist operation. This story follows Jazz Bashara, who is a Saudi Arabian woman living on the moon, in the city of Artemis. This experience was more or less the same. I personally preferred the movie to the book, which is blasphemous, I know, but that’s how it is. I also enjoyed the sciency bits at times, but I found them overwhelming at others. I found it to be the perfect book for a movie adaptation, and I really liked Weir’s humor and the ease with which he tells his story. I read The Martian back when it blew up, and I really enjoyed it.
You can’t go wrong with a city on the moon.
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