The complaints about Julian being weak willed aren’t without merit, and Kurla is massively over bearing. But the are this way for reasons that are explained.
Both have lived lives of massive setback and failure. They are products of that. Both by the end are making strides to be better. Small strides but strides.
The meat of the story is missing it starts to get interesting and just ends the final fight could have used 5 more pages.
Still an interesting start. The author’s related series Dinosaur Dungeon’s first book was weaker than the later ones so I have hope it will pick up .
The voice performance is adequate. The female voices need more work they aren’t as expressive as they could be.