Well, you do have to hand it to the writer, if it was he or she, for posting a "review" in an appropriate forum (or not, depending on you view of the whole self advertising idea)
In speaking of writing styles and the whole "show, don't tell" idea, I've found that there are at least two types of readers out there and the writing styles enjoyed by one is sometimes not always enjoyed by the other. The two styles reflected in "show" and "tell" focus the writing on the "experience" and the "plot" respectively. To some readers it is "what happens" and to find out they can endure a LOT of "tell." But to others it's the "show" because they wish to experience the emotional component of the story more than the denouement. Those who focus on experiencing are often "right brained" (which is better classified as 'metonymic') and those to whom plot is the point of the story are usually 'left brained' (i.e. metaphoric). In any case, if you are writing a story and want both types to read it, you have to make the plot MOVE and you have to dive deeply into the characters in order to make the reader FEEL.
A good example of what can be called a 'metonymic' book is "A Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. In the US Thomas Wolfe's "Look Homeward Angel" is a good start. You can add to the of metonymic style story telling anything by James Joyce ("Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man", "Ulysses", "Finigan's Wake"), William Faulkner, and many of the southern writers.
Against this you might consider metaphoric writers where the plot moves quickly (and thus you see more "tell" than "show" in most cases) to be authors like Rowling and just about any "adventure" writer, including Mark Twain, Danielle Steel, Isaac Asimov, and many, many others. It is interesting to note that current critical reviews tend to discount plot driven novels (though they are often more successful in the markets) than the metonymic types.
In any case, the point is that most books are not for everybody. Readers vary as much as writers and thus, you may like a book I detest and I may return the favor regarding one you like. It's all in why you read and why I do so too.
Just some thoughts.
AJ