Review Detail of Not_a_person in Humanity's Greatest Mecha Warrior System

I believe that this novel has some potential but I’m not going to be going along for the ride anymore. I just can’t describe exactly how annoying the development of the characters is. The children of the story feel so lifeless and joyless, like the author doesn’t know how to write compelling young characters. Why is everyone so dead? Absolutely no distinct traits of the main characters in the beginning of the story and not much reason to stay around and see them fleshed out when there is not any development so far. The story harps on the idea that Max and Nico are super mature and talented, yet I don’t think that at all, instead they feel robotic, like androids imitating human behavior. I can’t imagine these being real people, and I just feel incredibly confused at how the background of the society works so that children are so willing to jump through fire and war to do what? For what purpose? I don’t know, but with how much the author narrates instead of showing dialogue between max and nico, you would assume that max never talks and cannot talk period. Again, decent writing but bad characters and story development.