Reddit reviews Tribes of Venara: Book One of the Archaic Ring Series

https://www.amazon.com/Tribes-Venara-Archaic-Reed-Stevens-ebook/dp/B07VZXGDL7

Heres the synopsis:

At fourteen-years-old Nolan had been known as one of the most intelligent young minds in the Canadian city of Collinsville. Only two years later and he has degraded into a common delinquent, spending most of his time skipping classes, playing video games, and getting into more fights than he cares to admit. His once record high academics were on the tail end of a gradual decline, a by-product of the growing indifference that had begun to fester after his parents' recent divorce. Unfortunately for Nolan all of his worries dissipate like smoke in the wind when he abruptly loses consciousness and wakes up in a forest that is completely foreign to him with nothing but the clothes on his body and the alarming awareness that this new environment is not one where he can survive on his own.
After wandering through the hellish wilderness he eventually encounters a strange group of hunter-gatherers that are exaggeratedly stronger than regular people, and manages to gain refuge within their village. When several of the nearby settlements are subjected to vicious genocides, the people around him begin to fear for their safety. By this point, however, Nolan is prepared to do whatever it takes in order to survive in this haunting new reality, a determination that solidifies with the chance discovery of a bizarre stone ring, an ancient object of magic and myth.

It's like a wuxia mixed with high fantasy/epic fantasy, there's a cultivation system martial skills and medicinal pellets etc I really liked it, the writing style basically reads like the synopsis