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A review by midici
Artemis by Andy Weir
3.0
I really loved The Martian, so I was very excited to read a second book by Andy Weir. Unfortunately, Artemis rates as just an okay sort of book.
Jazz is a genius, sarcastic smart-ass with really good survival instincts, totally unlike Mark Watney who is a genius, sarcastic, smart-ass with really good survival instincts. Don't get me wrong - it's a totally valid character type; but when you use the same exact same personality and change the rest of the character as though it's window dressing that doesn't actually affect the character in any meaningful way, I find myself a bit disappointed.
The plot is interesting: a criminal enterprise, a smuggler accidentally involved in a murder investigation, space hijinks. I'm a big fan of all of those things. But the characters, both the main and the side ones, were not interesting enough to make any meaningful impact.
In The Martian I overlooked the occasional annoying juvenile humor as a sort of in-character trait of Watney's that I could gloss over. In Artemis it's both more obvious and more annoying, with less reason for it.
So my final judgement is it's an alright book but nowhere near as good as Weir's first.
Jazz is a genius, sarcastic smart-ass with really good survival instincts, totally unlike Mark Watney who is a genius, sarcastic, smart-ass with really good survival instincts. Don't get me wrong - it's a totally valid character type; but when you use the same exact same personality and change the rest of the character as though it's window dressing that doesn't actually affect the character in any meaningful way, I find myself a bit disappointed.
The plot is interesting: a criminal enterprise, a smuggler accidentally involved in a murder investigation, space hijinks. I'm a big fan of all of those things. But the characters, both the main and the side ones, were not interesting enough to make any meaningful impact.
In The Martian I overlooked the occasional annoying juvenile humor as a sort of in-character trait of Watney's that I could gloss over. In Artemis it's both more obvious and more annoying, with less reason for it.
So my final judgement is it's an alright book but nowhere near as good as Weir's first.