Continue reading wordcount

I love this theme, but I'm having trouble with the "Continue reading" feature. I would like to be able to use the "more" icon in WP to determine where the "Continue reading" link shows on the front page. I tried setting the wordcount in Excerpt/More Tag Settings to way more than needed and this allowed the WP "more" to break in the correct place, but the "Continue reading" link doesn't show. Can anything be done?