Scavenge the Stars

DNF - PG 24Why?... Because I don't do my proper research on books.Look, I liked Sim's Timekeeper trilogy so when I saw she was writing another book, I just added it to my TBR. This was like three years ago. Maybe I knew what it was about then, but I've been sitting here thinking that this was going to be a sci-fi story like [b:Heart of Iron 35181314 Heart of Iron (Heart of Iron, #1) Ashley Poston https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1498506185l/35181314.SY75.jpg 52787851] or [b:Stitching Snow 16067008 Stitching Snow R.C. Lewis https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1390498946l/16067008.SY75.jpg 21858427].When I started reading it, it dropped me down on a slaver style debtor ship and all I was thinking of was [b:Seafire 37822534 Seafire (Seafire, #1) Natalie C. Parker https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1519742447l/37822534.SX50.jpg 55913489]. The I decided, upon slogging through less than a dozen pages, that now was a good time to read the dust jacket synopsis....I never read [b:The Count of Monte Cristo 7126 The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1611834134l/7126.SY75.jpg 391568] but I know the story. I also know I don't like the story and I don't want to read a retelling of it. Even a gender-swapped retelling.So I slogged through two dozen boring pages of two characters that do not interest me in the slightest, while starting and finishing two other books. (And one of those books wasn't very good, but at least it hooked me at the beginning).I know twenty-four pages isn't enough to say I dislike the book, but something should have caught me by this point, and nothing did.