The opportunity for an early read of ARTEMIS was an easy decision considering my love for The Martian. The similarities in context are there in terms of genre and setting. ARTEMIS is set on the moon and the moon of the future is a large city, corrupt and problematic, but home for many. Jasmine (Jazz) Bashara is the protagonist for ARTEMIS and I can now say that Andy Weir writes a female lead with ease and natural ability. I liked her, her little criminal heart and all her dealings. She was the epitome of a strong female. I championed her ambitions and loved finding out about her culture and upbringing. Moon culture was something of a diverse melting pot of people, with guilds that separated the cultures and trades. It was just fascinating reading, that painted colour and interest in my imagination. The moon was an interesting read but at about 30%, the story just went BAM! The plot was gripping but complex, you need to concentrate and like The Martian, ARTEMIS requires some patience with the technical speak but I didn’t get lost on the whole. Whilst Jazz was front and centre of this story, I enjoyed other characters, her father, Rudy, also Trond and Svoboda (he’s still waiting for her to test that condom). I’m really thrilled that Andy Weir was able to follow up The Martian with something solid, different but still with the same thrills, tension and characterisation. I now know that I’m going to jump on any release he has. I recommend to Sci-fi fans and open minded readers alike because I don’t think you need to be a staunch sci-fi fan to appreciate ARTEMIS.

Andy Weir has created another funny, likeable protagonist you'll enjoy rooting for, and a similar blend of hard science and humour that made The Martian so popular. Such a fun read!

I was pleased to see that Weir has stuck with the extra-terrestrial setting he established with the Martian – this time the novel is set on the moon. The difference, however, is that we are in an established colony with shops, offices, workshops, tourists (lots of tourists, mostly the super-rich) and, of course, a little bit of crime. Our main character, Jazz Bashara, is one of those criminals: a porter who makes cash (or rather credits – like all futuristic societies everything is credit based) on the side by smuggling in items considered as contraband by those in charge of Artemis. She is getting by, although her personal relationships (particularly the one with her dad) are a bit of a disaster area, and it looks like she’ll take years to raise the amount she needs. But then she is offered a life-changing amount to do one big job and her troubles really begin. I quite liked Jazz – although she is a very abrasive character – because I could see that she wanted to be better than she is. She’s very intelligent but rebellious, immature but with a strict sense of her own personal morality. If Jazz Bashara makes you a promise she will keep it – even if it costs her. There’s plenty of action scenes, a lot of dark humour and some interesting secondary characters, including a Ukrainian nerd and a former best friend, and also, as you would expect from the author who taught us how to grow potatoes on Mars using our own waste products, there is a lot of science. Which I loved even though I’m not that hot on science myself. I trust Andy Weir to do it right. This my favourite sort of sci-fi – clever, funny and as much about how people learn to live with each other as the technical details of how to live on the moon.

A banter filled, science heavy heist adventure set on an up and coming settlement on the moon where smuggling is rife and there’s always some money to be made.Very fun, slightly silly and an easy, enjoyable read for anyone that loves a roguish main character and a story with high stakes that just get higher and higher.Alongside the fast paced, action fuelled events of Artemis there’s some cleverly placed heartfelt moments that reveal that at it’s core Artemis is as much about found family and community as it is about stopping a gaggle of stabby mobsters from controlling the moon’s only settlement. I adored it, and as Weir’s least talked about novel it surprised me as to how much I enjoyed it and how quickly I barrelled through it to devour one mad caper after another. But then, I do love me a sci fi heist…

This book was genuinely so good. I know I've heard a lot of negative stuff about it but I honestly thoroughly enjoyed it. I've been on a mad Sci Fi kick and have been devouring sci fi books lately and this was such a fantastic read. I loved Jasmine (the main character) I found her incredibly relatable a hard ass on the outside a softie on the inside with incredible sarcastic humour and her reactions to things are just exactly what is be like. Specially the bit when she left the murder scene and was just like nope..nope..nope