I’ll start with the cover being all kind of misleading and only a little relative. You could easily skip about 2-3 hours in the middle and not miss anything but of the same type of thing happening over and over. Also like a song the book feels like it has a chorus, every time this happens the MC thinks or does the same thing. For all that it has good world building and some character development mostly in learning his abilities not maturing. It’s on the dark side showing the corrupted nature of people with power, little oversight, and hateful dispositions. Over all it’s worth the time but could’ve been something far more.