Great book, only issues were the fact that no one in the novel except

Raymond and his fellow workers

was white. Everyone in game and even in the background at school and in public. The main character lives in Arizona which has a large Latinx and Indigenous population. There may have been some non-white characters but if so they were white passing. (Like the protagonist dad maybe.)

Also I feel like the way the conflict was framed had a whiff of white saviorism. The author tried to address it after the fact but didn’t pull it off well.

This isn’t the second Jen Wang project I WANT SO BAD to give 5 stars but I can’t ignore these issues. Both this and the other one do more harm than good. These issues were smaller than making King Lepold look like not a genocidal king.