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It gets even worse because there's an immediate timeskip to "now firstname lastname has been here for months and is scamming people at the space mall playing three card monty!"Read the Google Books preview for Starship Repo out of morbid curiosity.
Look, I have the attention pan of a rodent but I think it's a fair criticism to call this book "boring." The first two chapters of your sci-fi epic shouldn't be "Hero waits in line at customs" and "Hero waits in line at McDonalds." I get that some stories start with slow burns -- American Psycho starts with a simple dinner scene. But like, that's a genuinely engaging scene because it characterizes everyone so thoroughly and gives us tons of insight into the world of the story, and how all the people in it are shallow scumbags.
There has to be a less boring, more concise way of writing the scene Pat is going for. Like a dozen Futurama episodes start with the premise "We're doing something mundane before the big adventure, but it's crazy because it's in the future, and there's space stuff!" I feel like it didn't have to be so goddamn boring.
God forbid you spend some time with the PoV character at an alien spacestation that no human has ever seen before. Plant seeds? Lay down some threads? No, let's just skip to Mary Sue being right at home in her new environment as the most popular girl on the space station. I didn't read any further than that because it felt so jarring.