Natasha Pulley's The Mars House
I didn’t really look at the description before picking this up—I was like, hey, I like Natasha Pulley, cool! Our main character is a dude named January who’s a principal dancer for the London Ballet, except it’s the future and London ends up totally flooded bc of climate change, so January has to move to Mars. And Earth humans on Mars have to undergo a painful and debilitating surgery to adapt to Mars gravity, or else they’re second-class citizens, and he ends up as a factory worker, where he gets into a televised argument with a powerful politician. And then things pivoted to a place I didn’t expect: the politician proposes an arranged marriage for Reasons (it makes sense, as far as fake marriages in books ever make sense). Yes, y’all, this book involves A FAKE MARRIAGE ON MARS. Oh, and ALSO, they’re on a reality show. AND there are major politics at play. This book should not work!! And yet, it mostly does! Things get a little slow in the second half and one plot reveal takes WAY too long to come, but there are so many cool moments (mammoths!) and I was totally caught up in this world. Very fun read, slightly all over the place but I enjoyed that. A-.
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A review copy was provided by the publisher. This book will be released on March 19th.
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