I really enjoyed Weir's novel The Martian so I was a bit hesitant about reading Artemis for fear it wouldn't live up to the same standard. As it turns out, I enjoyed it even more than The Martian. Jasmine "Jazz" Bashara is a porter in Artemis, the only city on Earth's moon. A porter is a low paying job transporting items delivered to Artemis to their intended recipients. Jazz augments her menial pay by smuggling, sometimes to well paying clients. When the possibility of huge score arises, she steps up her game into the big time but things go wrong and she finds herself the target of a killer, the law, and the corporations that control Artemis. The action is fast, the heroine has the right combination of smarts and snark and just enough ethics to commit an altruistic act of heroism. The audiobook is read by Rosario Dawson who does a masterful job. I was sorry to have it end.
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