She’s a seriously flawed character, but she has a heart. Jazz is not The Martian‘s golden boy protagonist who you root for there are times you wish she’d hit rock bottom already so that she could finally go up. But once she begins her plan, it leads her down a path that’s even more dangerous than she could have imagined that puts the entire fate of Artemis in jeopardy.

That’s why when a billionaire offers her a lucrative sum to commit sabotage against a company he plans to buy, Jazz jumps at the chance, even though it will be a risky crime to pull off and how exactly she’s going to do it remains to be seen. But then again, in real life, we don’t always get to figure that out about people either.īut Jazz does have hopes of one day having a better life, but that means getting her hands on some big money relatively soon. But, the truth is, she’s totally wasting her potential!!! The problem with Artemis is that we never really learn why she’s followed such a destructive path. Over the years, the 20-something year-old has heard countless times from various people that she’s wasting her potential. She’s incredibly smart and can teach herself how to do anything by watching a YouTube video or reading a book or manual, yet instead of following the straight-and-narrow path laid out by her honest and good-natured father, she lives an impoverished life working as a courier, making extra money under the table smuggling in innocuous contraband from Earth. Whereas The Martin centered on an injured astronaut struggling to survive on an inhospitable planet with little to work with except some potatoes and his smarts, Weir’s new book introduces us to Jasmine “Jazz” Bashara, an intelligent young woman living on the Moon colony Artemis who has repeatedly made poor life choices. For the audiobook edition from Audible Studios, actress Rosario Dawson ( Marvel’s Daredevil, Sin City, Clerks II) provides the narration. Now, Weir is back in the cosmos with his follow-up novel, Artemis, another scifi story, this time set in the near-future on Earth’s first and only colony on the Moon. The science fiction tale was a hit with readers, and was later adapted for the big screen with Matt Damon as the ill-fated spaceman. Writer Andy Weir made a name for himself with his successful debut The Martian, a self-published novel about an astronaut stranded on Mars that went on to make the New York Times Best Seller list in 2014 when it was reprinted by Crown Publishing. Publisher: Crown Publishing | Audible Studios (Audiobook) Hardcover | Paperback | Kindle | Audiobook

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