3 Stars
Made for movie lunar romp.
This has all the right elements, and the engineering of it is really obvious. I can almost see the character and plot check boxes alongside Weir's monitor for verifying against his outline. There's nothing wrong with it, but there's no surprises. Want a popcorn book? This is a good choice. Not bad, not great, but you also won't be thinking about it much longer than it takes to read it.
Jazz is the hero in this first person point of view lunar intrigue story. Take the Wild West setting with it's power struggles and resource infighting, subtract gravity and atmosphere, add STEM learning modules and voila! You've got the basis of Artemis. Seriously, I can see using this as an interdisciplinary reading assignment for middle school students.
You've got the maverick entrepreneurial young adult rebel making her own rules, living her life her way. Not glamorous and scrapping by, but too proud to mend bridges until circumstances require it. Then, it is all so easy to get everyone on board with the plan. Of course, the lawless malcontent really has a heart of gold. Hooray!
I suspect this will be a bigger hit with the YA demographic.
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