Help me get into Wayfarers Series

I ADORE the monk and robot books by Becky Chambers I love them so much they are among the most wonderful novels I have ever read. They are superb.

But for the life of me I cannot get into ALWFASAP. I think I've failed like four times now. Nothing seems to happen other than this person is an intern on a space freighter and has conversations with various crew members and somewhere along the way I lose interest. I swear I get one conversation further every re read attempt. But outside those conversations nothing within the plot seems to happen?

Funny maybe they monk robot books were like that a little bit but I so immediately adored the world and characters that I got sucked in quickly.