So I’ll be honest I listened to this audiobook while playing some video games so I didn’t absorb as much as I would have liked.

It was a cool enough story but not as thrilling and memorable as The Martian. There were times when it was a bit too geeky with the science and numbers, and not in an interesting way. I also feel like the world building could have been much better.

I won’t go into the writing and some of the strange going on’s but like many of the other reviews here have stated, I think it struggled most with our protagonist Jazz. It felt like Weir didn’t really know how to write a unique female character, as the way she speaks and narrates feels identical to Watney in The Martian. I don’t feel like I had the chance to fully understand or relate to her.

That being said I enjoyed the performance by Rosario Dawson for this audiobook. While the writing and characters weren’t entirely amazing, she still has a soothing voice and her uses of accents helped bring the different characters to life.