Artemis

Overview: A tense murder-mystery in the first settlement on the moon. Filled with puzzles, humour, action, science and a great main character that I'd love to read more about.

After 1st Reading: Started it yesterday. Finished it today. There are so many things to make this book hard to put down. There's a good streak of humour, there's an interesting setting, then there's one detective-style mystery after another, just when you think you're onto solving one mystery - another pops up. Then there's the lovable-rogue main character, who you want to see is safe (so, just one more page) and then the faeces hits the rotary blade and our unlikely band have to deal with a huge deadly danger! Got to see if everyone is OK!

If a fire alarm went off, they'd probably have found me bolting out of the building while still reading...I'd evacuate of course...there's no way I'd let the book burn!

Yes, a good read all said.

After 2nd Reading: Was it as good as the first time around? Yes! This is a real page turner of a book with great puzzles that have you reading as fast as possible while your brain buzzes trying to put the clues together. While I don't think that the author has any plans for direct sequels, the main character, Jazz, is such a great protagonist that I would love to read about her further adventures I would just love the Administrator to blackmail Jazz into being Rudy's deputy. Not only would she be a great detective, but the Rudy vs Jazz friction would be hilarious I wouldn't mind seeing a bit more of the gardener either...

A really good read.