Struggling with a book - Forged in Death

So I'm trying to catch up on some of my e-reading and decided to try a new author. Jim Melvin -- I got the first book of his Death Wizards Chronicles, Forged in Death, for free from the Google Play store. It seemed a safe start.

It talks about Torg, his group he works with, the Asekhas, and their battle against Invictis.

Now I'm 57 pages in and really having trouble. I find no character I can connect to. I'm finding the author repeating himself, using both show and tell in the same paragraph, and using large words, just for the sake of large words when a simpler phrase would do.

I'm just checking if anyone else has read it, or if I'm the only one struggling.

>2 Jarandel: Very enlightening...

>3 gilroy: The title reminded me of something else I read, but upon checking it wasn't it. And you can't delete messages altogether.

>4 Jarandel: No problem. It allowed the thread to bump so others can see it. :)
Plus with it now showing as deleted, people will wonder what I found enlightening, hopefully. :)

I checked out a blurb of the book on Amazon, and tried out the prologue and part of chapter 1. Wow, gilroy. You weren't kidding. I can't believe you made it through 57 pages. So far it feels overdone and overly dramatic. But then, I'm just coming off the Vesik series by Eric R. Asher. Not sure if that qualifies as fantasy, strictly speaking...
I say, don't struggle. Move on. There are so many wonderful books in the world...

>6 RecklessReader: The writing doesn't improve much from what you saw. I gave up on page 84.

I lost all respect for the writer when he had a character hanging from a wall in a gale force ice storm by one hand, swinging a sword hard enough to cause damage. Without the character being effected in any form.