YMMV / Scavenge the Stars

• Complete Monster:
  • Scavenge the Stars (first book): Captain Zharo is warden of the debtor ship known as the Blackfish. Zharo is in charge of forcing the child workers to pay off their debts, and delights in breaking them psychologically by stripping them of their humanity, even removing their names. Zharo subjects them to hellish conditions and starvation onboard and will even increase the time they have to spend paying off their debt with the flimsiest of excuses, often leading these kids to their deaths. As a cruel personal attack, Zharo rubs into Amaya Chandra's face that her mother has been dead the entire time Amaya was working on this ship and Amaya wasn't aware.
  • Ravage the Dark: André Basque is a powerful nobleman in charge of a fleet of debtor ships in which prisoners are enslaved and forced to work off their debt. Basque is behind a counterfeiting scheme which involves creating fake gold coins to increase his wealth, but it comes with a horrendous price. The coins are laced with a toxin which induces a deadly illness known as Ash Fever, of which Basque is aware, but doesn't care. A greedy, hateful man, Basque already has the cure to Ash Fever but is content to let it spread and Kill the Poor he despises.