Reliance
Book One of the Reliance Trilogy
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Publisher Description
Finn No Last Name lives her life exactly the way she likes. Sure, she lives on a Mud Pit with some of the worst criminals and cast-offs the Reliance has to offer, but she has a knack for stealing things that has earned her a reputation as the best thief the Farthers has to offer. Unfortunately for Finn, her life gets turned on its head when she tries to steal from an upper-caste courtesan and winds up stuck in space on a merchant ship. This ship happens to be run by a strange, eclectic crew and Finn quickly learns that there is more to them than meets the eye. Before she can escape or con her way back home, she finds herself embroiled in a mission to uncover the Reliance’s darkest secret . . . a secret that may hit closer to home than she could have ever imagined.
Reliance introduces a fantastic new character as impetuous and defiant as Rogue One’s Jyn Erso and begins a thrilling new trilogy that fans of crew-driven space operas by authors such as Rachel Bach (Fortune’s Pawn), Mike Brooks (Dark Run), and James S.A. Corey (The Expanse) will find themselves racing through at light speed.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In the overwrought, talky first volume of a planned space opera trilogy, Andersen teases several intriguing concepts, but still essentially relies on the overworn trope of a ship full of quirky, competent rogues with tragic backstories taking on an oppressive, highly structured, vaguely defined colonizing evil empire. Rough-edged Finn No Last Name has become one of the best thieves in the lawless Mud Pit of the Farthers, where the Reliance throws its criminals, since she arrived as a runaway child years earlier. When she boards the courtesan Iliana's cargo ship in order to steal a valuable necklace, the crew of mostly alien-human "half-breeds," who are typically killed by the Reliance, detains her because Iliana claims Finn is her lost sister, Kyra. Finn slowly warms to her captors and becomes a useful member of the team; her photographic memory helps them in a heist during a Reliance ball, and she begins acknowledging her own history and psychic powers. Andersen has set herself up well to potentially tell a more original story in the second volume, but taken on its own, this novel is heavy on exposition and light on satisfaction.
