The writing is too poor for me to continue this book. Walker is predominantly a romance author, and this reads like romance writing. I don't mind this kind of clunky/awkward writing in romances, but in fantasy where worldbuilding, description etc. is so important, it doesn't work. 

At first I thought that I was just being dumb when I kept having to read the same sentence over and over. Nope. It's the writing.

Also, I don't love that the author is a woman who seems to write exclusively gay male romances...