The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

I really wanted to like this book, but just couldn't get into it. The premise seems sound enough. A woman with a hidden past joins a crew of worm-hole tunnellers on the big run that can set them up for life. Unfortunately, I gave up reading after little over a hundred pages as nothing happens. There's a lot of talking, a lot of eating. There seemed to be no plot development other that this big job was on the horizon. I never got a sense of who the crew were, just how different they were from other humans. I did get that preferred pronouns are a big deal to aliens for some unknown reason, and that the main character must remind herself that speciesism is inappropriate. The injection of modern day identity politics seemed completely out of place because they didn't add anything to the story. So, all in all, I have to say that this book was not for me.