These Summer Storms by Sarah Maclean is a rich-people-behaving-badly book about the family of a tech gazillionaire who has just died in a hang-glider accident at age 70. His wife and four children – including his estranged daughter Alice – gather at their summer estate in Rhode Island to grieve the sudden loss. Once together, they learn from their father’s “fixer” Jack that he left notes for them with tasks for each to accomplish before they can receive their share of his massive estate. For the next week, the siblings squabble, bond and collectively process the death of a man who was manipulative, controlling and often mean, while Alice – whose relationship with her father was left unresolved – finds herself increasingly attracted to Jack, who is ostensibly there to oversee the inheritance game but can’t stay away from her… Does this sound like a bit of a mess? I kept reading because I wanted to see how the game ended up, but now that I am done, I am not sure what this book was trying to be – a romance? a family drama? It all felt a bit thrown together – and still overly long and needlessly repetitive. These Summer Storms was on a lot of the summer fiction lists, so I am glad I saw what it was about, but the longer I get from reading it, the less I’ve liked it.