This may be my own preference but I just can’t stand the protagonist in this series. He comes off as an arrogant jerk with absolutely nothing to back it up. He says himself early in the series that he is pretty much garbage in a fight and then runs around constantly getting into fights he almost universally loses and then has to be saved by the slightly more competent people around him. And rather than learn from any of this he just charges in, fails, gets rescued by the people around him, then acts like a complete jerk about the whole thing. He has the attention span of a mentally handicapped gnat. Somehow repeatedly forgetting he is in a life or death situation only to space out at a critical juncture. Then he gets a one trick pony superpower that would be kinda cool but it requires the person using it to be worth more than a damp rag in a fight to be even sort of useful. I ended up rooting for the bad guys as they came off as far more likable than the main protagonist.