Might i suggest read the novel ...?
so loud yet so wrong, don’t be too quick to judge
You can always drop now if it's not your taste. The author has the tendency to write problematic or in your definition stupid mc/ml in most of her works, the only differences is this one was long enough to have proper character development. If you want green flag or relatable characters right from the beginning this series is not for you.
A lot of readers here have already understood that he has alexithymia, a personality disorder. Or even guessed that his logic is different or hes on the spectrum. It explains his thought process on the situations you have mentioned are not the usual but he has his own logic behind nonetheless.
left it to marinate, only to get a dumb bitch of a protagonist.
There's huge difference between apathy and not understanding/relating to other people's feelings
and lacking common sense and having the iq of undeveloped toddler. Grayson isn't written as an emotionless psychopath but as a literal kid with the dumbest brain bec ffs how's not speaking when someone's literally shushing you and trying to be secretive or how isn't it the most basic common sense not to leave a kid locked up even when you don't pity them or even give a single fuck what that child may be feeling then...etc
I'm usually against child abuse, but Ash should've beaten that dumb bitch even harder
also the way all women written here absolutely gives me the ick what kind of MenWritingWomen challenge r we cooking here
anyway god save Dane bec I honestly kms if I had to be paired with a dumb bitch