Gunpowder Moon

It is a good story. But somehow I couldn't ‘feel' it.
There is a slight chance that I didn't ‘click' with the narrator (although it hardly ever happens), but a more likely scenario is that it is just not my author.
I needed to listen to the first three of four chapters twice just to understand who the characters were and what was going on. At some point I caught up with the story, but there was no real connection with it or the characters.
Or maybe I've been listening to too much fantasy books recently and just forgot how to read sci-fi or fiction :) Will need another sci-fi book to check this.