/lit/ - Literature

Just read the prologue of The Darkness That Comes Before after seeing it recommended here so much.

Does it... Get better? I guess it might not be my taste, but the prologue just didn't catch my interest really.
>start off with an exposition dump for world building
>throw in kid getting raped by a priest because these are bad times
>2000 years later
>rape victim's great-something grandson is on a quest to find his dad because of dreams now, definitely not giving chosen one vibes
>literal neckbeard fedora-tipper who constantly thinks about how superior he is to these superstitious God-fearing retards
>use big brain powers to manipulate the old guy that saves your life because your dumb ass is too stupid be outside
>but he's still a genius
>kill some dogs for the gut reaction from the audience, remind them it's REALLY bad times
>leave the old guy to die too because he was just a STUPID PAWN
>encounter an ageless horseman who has spent millennia fighting and honing his skills
>beat his ass easy using big brain monk powers because he's a badass despite spending his whole life in a monastery
>stand over the immortal and prepare to monologue because big brain
>wtf he used magic that's cheating
>run away
What gives?
Kellhus just seems like an unlikeable or unrelatable ass, like a worse Kvothe. Does he ever stop just using people? Does his character develop in any interesting way? I really wanted to like this because I was looking for some darker fantasy, but I don't know. When I got to the first chapter I was hoping to find that the protagonist was actually someone against Kellhus, but upon researching further I seem to have been disappointed.