A review by wispy_reviews
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein

adventurous challenging funny reflective tense slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

2.75

This review is written on my second reading of this book; reading it again was immensely helpful with processing the ideas present, but it sure doesn’t speed up the book at all.  
Heinlein loves to preach his own socio-political ideas in the form of science fiction stories, this is no exception and it is very dry for a great majority of it.
I would have preferred more focus on the element(s) of artificial intelligence, which started strong but waned in favor of the political rhetoric.
And, of course, you can’t have classic Sci-Fi without Baked-in misogyny.  I swear, women in this book contribute nothing; Heinlein can pedestalize them as much as he wants, preach how wonderful and important and smart they are, but none of these women CONTRIBUTE anything to the political/war plot.  Any time they participate it feels like they exist to be corrected by the men in the room.
It’s not the worst book I’ve ever read, and has some surprisingly good jokes and character dialogue, but is bogged down by long stretches of nothing happening.
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