Ship of Smoke and Steel

I did not finish Ship of Smoke and Steel, I got 110 pages in and had to stop because I had a weird mix between apathy and dread every time I thought about it. This one just never gripped me, I think I had trouble relating to a MC who treats allies as so completely disposable. If they’re not going to care about the secondary characters, why should I? Even this early on there is a hint of possible queer romance that will develop later on in the book, but since the protagonist has already demonstrated that they are completely capable of <spoiler>murdering men they've been in relationships with</spoiler>, being offered a f/f pairing doesn't sit right with me. As a bi person, having a character who seems to be written as bi or pan also be a character willing to <spoiler>murder their partners</spoiler> is really unsettling because it plays …

I feel like there are several classic SF stories on the theme "Oh no, a bunch of us have been abducted and we're on an (abandoned?) alien space ship and don't know how it works or why we're here so we're just kinda stumbling about sticking our human forks into alien light sockets and trying to learn stuff." But I can't think of any in particular, so maybe it's a subgenre I have made up.

But in case I have not, this is the fantasy version of that SF trope.

Protag Isoka has murdered her way into a somewhat comfortable position as a mid-level mob boss, but now she's stuck on a mysterious ghost ship with a bunch of other people who have been stuck on the ship longer than her; long enough to have murdered their way into their own murder-based social order. Can she solve the problem with …