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May 16, 2018Foster3185 rated this title 1 out of 5 stars
This book is 50% clunky exposition and 50% unrealistic portrayal of a young Arabic woman. The dialogue is often groan-inducingly catty and immature, the protagonist is snarky to the point of being boring, and for such a hard sci-fi book there is a profound lack of realism in how the characters are portrayed. Many of them seem like only slightly altered versions of the same person and there was a frustrating lack of consequences in the sometimes drastic actions they take. I enjoyed The Martian because it made the (quite necessary) scientific explanation more accessible than many other writers. But here it's overdone to the point of absurdity. It's as though Weir took his success with The Martian and tried to replicate it as much as possible but just shoving it in a different setting, but it just doesn't work in this case.