Stories in which I struggle to connect with the characters can become a bit of a chore to get through. As a reader, you are going to have feelings of disconnect to a degree since you are already on the outside looking in on the story. When insufferable or just unrelatable characters are in control in the book, it takes me back to my days in school.
The days in which the ‘pick me’ types would be constantly going off about how much they hate their parents, even though you knew their parents, and they literally gave them everything they could ever want. The urge to shut your brain off to the audacity coming out of their mouths is similar to the feelings of mustering through a story involving unrelatable characters.
This trend does not just follow books, but pretty much anything involving people or characters. Movies and shows that are about an OP individual that never faces any real adversity, are my least favorite and the most boring to me. There is a certain amount of character development that only occurs once you have gone through something challenging or painful. Something has to humble us all, so we have that sense of fear in the back of our minds that death and pain are a very real possibility. That there are consequences to our actions. The naivety of some of these main characters in media is mind numbingly boring since I know the ending at that point.
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