*3.75 stars

This was a harder one to rate. I enjoyed it, although I felt like it was a little disjointed. Like it was maybe trying to tell too many stories at once - or no, maybe just that the stories it was trying to tell didn't really seem to mesh? I'm not sure. It ended up working out in the end, and the vibes were cool, very 2005 Pirates of the Caribbean, and I did enjoy it overall, although the title I felt was a tad misleading. Where was the scavenging? Where were the stars? And even as a metaphor, it didn't really work - it felt, again, disconnected.

I'm complaining a lot for a book I gave (on goodreads' whack system anyway) four stars. I really did like it, and I will continue on and will definitely read more from this author. The prose was really smooth and nice to read, and I like the characters. A solid pirate novel.