Episode 29: These Summer Storm by Sarah McLean

For Episode 29 we’re diving into These Summer Storms by Sarah MacLean - a deliciously messy family drama set on a private island off the Rhode Island coast, where grief, billionaires, sibling rivalries, and one absolutely unhinged inheritance game collide.
When Alice Storm returns home for her father’s funeral, she fully intends to keep her head down and leave as quickly as possible. Unfortunately, her late father has other plans, forcing the entire dysfunctional Storm family to remain on the island for a week of tasks, secrets, manipulation, emotional damage, and enough tension to power the East Coast.

Think Succession, but with more romance, more coastal atmosphere, and at least a tiny shred of emotional self-awareness. We’re talking secret affairs, simmering resentment, family power plays, inherited trauma, wildly complicated sibling dynamics, and one unfairly attractive right-hand man who absolutely does not help the situation.
Join us as we discuss the chaos, the characters we loved to hate, the razor-sharp family dynamics, and why this book felt like the perfect storm of summer escapism and emotional devastation.