The charectors were like bricks with no personality whatsoever and welded into whatever half assed plot he wanted.
He deflected any criticism I gave with "it's just a hobby, you can't expect something 'that high level'", and it was his style of writing. Why even bother asking me to read it and...
Everything felt so distant and like a summary of a news article rather than a story. And he kept repeating the character's actions/adverbs too. Like, I just searched it, and one chapter had the word "smirked" sixty-three times.
One of the guys I knew kept asking me to read his novel, and, by God, it was one of the worst fictions I've read in recent years. And by worst, I don't mean the plot was bad or that the guy didn't know English properly. It's just... the way he 'wrote' was absolute dog poop.