Space Brooms! is a fun and rompy sci-fi adventure novel, written by A.G. Rodriguez, and published by Angry Robot Books. A kinda cozy story full of friendship, found family and action, with a creative worldbuilding, following Johnny Gomez after he finds a data chit that might mean the way to get out of the job he was stuck on the Kilgore station if he manages to survive and get it to the adequate people.

Johnny originally left Luna looking for bigger horizons, adventures and new prospects; but after ten years working on the custodial staff at Kilgore Station, cleaning and desinfecting after all kinds of alien, he's trapped into a life without prospects. All changes when he finds a data chit; after he's rescued from a beating by a pair of spacefarers, Hooper and Liliana, and together with Lissette (a woman he always daydreamed about), they start a journey headed towards Luna looking to pocket a hefty sum in exchange of the chit. Only if they are not attacked or robbed of it first.

While this is a bit of the classical adventure story, Rodriguez draws more into the side of the characters, resulting into a really well-fleshed cast that forms the perfect ragtag band: not only Johnny, who has to work in his self-confidence, but each one of the crew has its own strengths and weaknesses. It was also heartwarming in part to see the interactions between Johnny and his uncles, reflecting a Latin family with its own quirks and all.

In terms of pacing, the book is a little bit slow in the first part, but after we are outside of the Kilgore Station, it becomes faster and funnier; not only we have time to explore how the Solar System has evolved in this setting, but to live a few difficult episodes that put our characters between the stone and the wall. The ending was kinda expected, but it suited well with the kind of story Rodriguez is trying to tell.

Space Brooms! is a great example of how to write a rompy and fun sci-fi adventure while putting extreme care at the characterization aspect; A.G. Rodriguez has talent for the genre, and I wonder if this won't be the start of a long series of adventures!