The writing feels like he's just going through an elementary student's checklist for "how to write good". I'm not engaged in the story or his prose, and the concept seems quite simple to be honest. He made a caste system the setting, not the theme or the antagonist, and it holds little utility as to why we the reader should feel conflicted alongside the character. It's a trope that's been done over and over again, and unless my library misplaced the book, should definitely not be in adult fiction.