Cabal of The Westford Knight: Templars at the Newport Tower

I chose this, the first book in a lengthy series as I'd hoped that I'd find a thrilling, DaVinci Code like series that I could get into and binge read through it. After slogging through the hackneyed writing, I will not be continuing the series. I did like the setting of New England as I spent a some time up there. And the "Divine Feminine" is cool (if not particularly earth-shatteringly original now.) Yet, the bad writing and overwhelming exposition about this or that site, person, bloodline, secret society became so heavy that forward movement in the plot almost collapsed. I did slog to the end and finish it - hoping that some clever twist of something might coax me to at least start to read the second book. Nope. No danger of this as, yep - unsatisfying conclusion and thus end of story and series for me.