The white savior trope was strong in this book. And it was even called out by one of the characters and the main character got pissed about being called racist (no one called him racist). But not in a self aware way. This very much came across as self insert hero fantasy. Also the pacing was really bad. Dramatic events would happen but only get a few sentences of description, and it happened enough that it was really irritating. And speaking of irritating, I couldn't stand the main character. I don't understand why he was the main character. He didn't really do anything. His role could have been condensed into thirty pages and used the extra space to expand upon the previously mentioned dramatic events that didn't get enough time.

I really didn't enjoy this, and after looking up Corban Addison's other books, they all appear to heavily feature the white savior trope, so I won't be checking them out.