When the narrator/protagonist sounds like a Gen Alpha who has the personality and humor of a 13-year old who is totally hormone driven but also still thinks farts are funny, and you sympathize with the big bad who calls them deeply irritating, there might be a little issue. Everybody Wants to Rule the World Except Me has a few good characters, but Davi isn’t really one of them. Yes, she’s got real reasons for having deep issues, but if she’s supposed to be in a sympathetic position, or at least she’s supposed to be the one you want to win, maybe she doesn’t need to be continuously obsessed with pointing out snickeringly and snidely every sexual innuendo possible in a sidebar, obsessing over how one armored character manages a specific bodily function.
Johann, Prince Himbo himself, Mr. Perfect Tushy, actually gets a lot more character, and he’s probably one of the most fun to watch. Him and Matthias together could carry the story, and sometimes, probably should. Too bad neither of them can do magic, and that’s what is needed to battle whatever power trapped Davi in the time loop (the answer turns out be predictable and kind of boring, and still also underdeveloped) as well as address the war between humans and Wilders that Davi et al. want to avoid, and their foes both near and far want to pursue. Relegating the contemporary pop culture to the footnotes mostly works, but I started skimming them when Davi got too annoying. The premise and tone have promise, but in Davi’s hands, don’t work out as well as they might.
It’s a mostly mindless, sometimes entertaining read, probably the kind of thing you want for a trip (beach reading, airport reading). Not the worst, but also not what it could have been (see Dungeon Crawl Carl for this sort of thing done to its best self).