The Good for Nothings by Danielle Banas is a fun space romp.
Cora, the daughter of well known crime lord family, struggles to fit into her family. During a job gone wrong she and her glitchy robot companion, Elio, get caught and placed in prison with two others. Wren is a human thief and Anders is a disgraced Andilly warrior.
There the warden makes a deal with Cora, if she can find the three keys, and the treasure he is searching for he’ll let her go. With not much time left for Elio, Cora agrees to hunt the fabled treasure with her strange cell mates. Along the way Cora learns that family is what you make of it and it doesn’t necessarily have to be blood, and goes in some pretty terrifying adventures, (that one planet was a giant death trap, no thanks).
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This is a fun book full of hijinks, adventure, secrets, and finding yourself. Cora has only has one way to see the world, her crime family, and her new companions get her to start seeing things a new way, even if it starts based on a lie. Anders is a delight, and I need more of him.
This book could easily spin off into more, and if it does I will happily read them, but if not I will enjoy what I got which is a rag tag group of misfits and my favorite trope of all time, Found Family.
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Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher I was able to read this book in exchange for an honest review. (3.5 stars out of 5)