Difficulty in Completion

I did finally finish the borrowed Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood. I still don't like FPS controls on consoles. I found the quick-draw events to be annoying to the last. But I liked the story, at least.

And now I'm struggling through reading Acacia, reading a chapter or two here and there. About a quarter of the way through and the story is reaching the point laid out clearly by the back cover - the could events that might have been actually suspenseful were ruined by the blurb there. I'm sort of interested in the political and historical setup of the world, but the writing itself bugs me.
For one, it bounces between over half a dozen character-based viewpoints. That always bothers me a little, though this is hardly the first book to do so. I've had trouble finding anything I like in depth about one or more characters because I've only been with each of them from their perspective for a couple chapters each.
The other thing that really bugs me is the excessive "telling" rather than "showing." Instead of having the full dialogue of a conversation, or description of a scene as it plays out, the novel covers a little bit and then starts summarizing. Instead of someone explaining "Blah, blah, blah," we get text that just says "so and so explained this." And that makes it hard for me to get into.