Lynnie 
science fiction
I loved Andy Weir's The Martian but this is a very different book. Other than the setting not being on Earth, the two stories do not have much in common.
Artemis is a colony on the moon and the story mainly follows one of the residents, Jasmine (also known as Jazz), who is a bratty 20-something who works legitimately as a porter and under the table as a smuggler. As you might expect, shenanigans ensue.
While I liked the storyline in Artemis, I really did not like Jazz. She was in her 20s but acted like a 12-year old boy most of the time. I don't know if there was a single conversation between characters, even supposedly serious conversations, that didn't revert to sophomoric sex jokes. That said, I really enjoyed the world that Weir built & the situations the characters had to work through were interesting. I would actually enjoy reading another story about this world, as long as Jazz isn't the main focus.
So, I recommend this book if you like space adventures and have the patience to endure an unlikable main character.
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