The Doloriad by Missouri Williams

Not a lot of reviews for this one out yet and and normally this would be awesome because I’d be excited to tell readers about a great new book I found, but this time it is to warn reader to stay far, far away from this flaming bag of…um…excrement.
The thing with being a completist…well, it’s kinda tedious, to be honest. It’s the sunken cost bias concept but in a book. Meaning you figure well, you already spent some time on the book, you might just finish it. And it’s almost never, ever worth it, either.
Take this waste of digital ink…I pretty much knew from the very first paragraph free image heavy overlong sentence prone first page this wasn’t going to be for me. But did I put it down? No. I persevered. Much to my shame and annoyance. And read the entire thing in one 230 minute or so bewildering sitting.
And bewildering it was…bewildering that a major publisher would produce this. That people will presumably read and enjoy this. That anyone would find it worthy of their time.
But those are all just vague opinions, what about specifics, you might ask? Well, specifically, this tediously dense dystopian nightmare is about an incestuous and partially deformed family of survivors who…well, just kind of exist. And this existence of there is so grotesque, so disgusting, so meaningless, that there’s no real reason form them to be alive and definitely no reason for them to have a book written about them.
And the frustrating thing here is that author actually has a nice way with words, but it’s overstylized into this mess, obviously deliberately. Definitely lamentably.
In a way it sort of reads like a kind of book that wins awards. One of those pretentiously unreadable tomes that critics tend to adore. Except that this one is especially vile, exceptionally viscerally vile. Not sure I ever used that word to describe a book, but reading this one, it was one of the first that came to mind.
And no, it isn't because I'm delicate or easy offended or dainty. I frequently read a variety of dark and scary things. It was just this terrible book.
This was a very sad waste of my time. And while there are some books you can not like but understand how someone might…with this one, I’m not sure how anyone can honestly enjoy it. Stay away, stay away. Thanks Netgalley.