This is a fun, fast-paced, sci-fi action, misfit-space-crew-being-molded-into-a-Team story that gets compared to Firefly in one of the back cover quotes. The cast includes a war veteran turned antique treasure hunter, a young hotshot race car driver, a butch battle-scarred bad-ass lesbian, a data wizard, a hippie chef, a hot doctor, a dead-eye markswoman and the Captain. I enjoyed the characters and their dynamics (as well as the side-plot queer romance) but wasn't as engaged with the constant chase scenes. This book feels like it was written with a film adaptation in mind, and I don't love what that does to the pacing. But it is cool to read a story in which magic and magic users are so well integrated into a spaceship/space battle setting.