I should have taken the description of being popular on tiktok as a warning. Not only were the characters flat, unbelievable, boring, and obnoxious all at once, but the writing style was the most pretentious pile of slop I've been exposed to since my early college writing classes. The only part with a shred of potential was the very end as the sequel was set up, but it didn't come even close to making the 14 hour slog worth it. The plot twists were unearned, the whole thing was a dull info dump, everyone kept saying they weren't who they were at the start, but they sure didn't look like they'd changed to me.