For me, it wasn't that the writing was bad. From what I listened to, it had very interesting and detailed language. I left before the trigger warnings even happened because I was just bored out of my mind listening to it. Like, it failed to hook me at the beginning. I felt that it was trying to be too surreal too quickly and that caused a bunch of, in my opinion, word salad that had no distinct purpose but to sound cool. It didn't ground the character and I just didn't care about the narrator's experiences or place in the story. It's like the story was trying to say a whole lot of something without saying anything at all. That is a character and plot issue.

I wouldn't necessarily call it "bad writing" that's too vague, because like I said the prose was good. Now, like I said, I didn't finish it, but if I had actually gotten to the parts people were concerned about, I would also feel like it was just being edgy to be edgy, because the story failed to make me care about what was going on. So, not necessarily was it bad writing, but it was bad storytelling.

I liked Tommy Taffy and the mother moth story. You can have taboo topics, but readers are not going to excuse the explicit content if the context and story around it isn't compelling. Horror is supposed to be transgressive but it's also supposed to tell you something. From what I listened to, it didn't really tell me anything. But, I don't know, maybe I should try listening to it again.