Right up my alley but writing is lacking

Okay, so this story premise is right up my alley - messed up mother daughter relationship, daughter coming into her own, a secret a young girl has to keep. It has all the trappings of the perfect book for me. But the writing is lacking in my opinion. The descriptions go on and on and they're rarely about anything interesting. I didn't actually care for any of the characters right off the bat and found the first half of the sample pages very boring. I want to know what happens next in this story but I worry I won't make it because of the writing.