The characters were interesting but I would have liked them to be better developed, I felt like there was a subtle romance happening between characters that (romance bias!) I would have liked to see more of or at least let me get to know the characters better. Weir is a smart guy who does his research on how to make the elements in his book actually work and have real scientific backing, but for a girl who reads about sexy glowing space aliens, wizards, and vampires, I don’t always need much in the way of the detailed hows. I skimmed a bit when I was tired of the technical talk but it really wasn’t too overwhelming or difficult to understand. It was a slow start for me where I felt like the book was focused on describing the map of the city instead of getting me attached to the main character. But when I get books as gifts I make an effort to read them as close to when I received them as possible (exception being the Game of Thrones series because omg those were toughhh for me to binge read, I love them, but man I always feel like I need a break after every chapter!) so gifted books help me get out of my book reading rut and diversify.Īnyways, Artemis was a fun read, but didn’t knock my socks off or anything. Those genre of books are ones that after I read the summaries for I’m like “yes I’m into this” and add to my to-read list but they always get pushed behind all the copious amounts of paranormal romance I read haha.
I was excited to receive it because I’d read his short story The Egg and his book The Martian (also a gift), both of which I really liked it.
I was given Artemis by Andy Weir as a present over the holidays this past year.
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