What book had a fantastic premise, but the writing style just ruined it for you?

I have read a few books where the premise is actually great but the writing style/execution of the book made it not an enjoyable read. I get especially frustrated with these reads because I feel like it could have been a 4 or 5 star book if it went through another round of rewrites or editing.

One that comes to mind for myself is Definitely Better Now by Ava Robinson because it was the last book I read that fell under this category. I LOVED the premise. It was about a character who was getting sober in her mid 20s in NYC. It was about dealing with your past life catching up to you and how you can still have self-destructive tendencies when sober. I fell in love with the premise because I feel like it was a story that was not tapped into yet. I have not read any book about getting sober in your 20s and the complications that comes with it from social norms to people's reactions to getting sober young.

But the writing style ruined it for me it was all tell the reader what is going on versus show the reader what is going on. Then when descriptions were use, they were so jarring it threw me out of the story. For example when the author was describing an energetic character she wrote, "It looked like she had just popped a piece of candy in her mouth"