Rating a compilation of short stories is always challenging because each one has its own merits and downfalls. Overall, I would give this book a 4-star rating but I'm hesitant to do so because of how much I disliked the 2nd story.

The 2nd novella is about an all-powerful alien being (who is unnecessarily white) embarking on a mission to save black victims from police brutality. The author continuously reminds us that the hero "isn't really" white, he's an alien. If you have to keep pushing this reminder maybe embrace the sign that you should have made your alien green. The fact that the hero only starts to care about police brutality in today's reality while somehow glossing over slavery, the civil rights movement, and the "war on drugs", doesn't exactly inspire you to root him on. The story reinforces harmful white saviour narratives and from a strictly storytelling perspective, seems like a poor choice of a narrator. The perspective prevents the reader from feeling the emotional toll of the injustice because there's no personal connection and reduces the victim to a statistic.