I thought I would love this book. I didn't.

I enjoyed the worldbuilding and the writing style, and sometimes the humor.

At first, I enjoyed the fact that the main characters were so unlikeable, who doesn't love a good redemption/taking responsibility for yourself and other people arc?

The problem was - there was no arc. The characters didn't develop, so they just got annoying over time. They rarely acted on their own, mostly things just happened to them and they stood there and took it and did NOT develop because of it.

The book does not seem to know what it wants to be or could not decide. For a dystopian story, there's too little worldbuilding, for a coming-of-age story there's too little character development, for a political story there's too little politics, for a fantasy story there's too little adventure and, unfortunately, for a good story there's no story arc and no real conclusion. It's just a string of random events, not really epic, but at the same time not really personal.