The Summer Place

Way too long. I enjoy a good character development but when pretty much none of the story in present day I was looking forward to reading is in the book I got irritated. Everyone is flawed, and over the top. Not a single redeeming character 

DNF at 50%. The blurb promised a novel about a dysfunctional family hashing it out at their summer beach house, but instead all I got was a lot of info-dumping and backstory on too many people. Weiner seemed to be trying a weird mix of family drama and Shakespearean comedy farce, which did not mix well. Skimmed the rest of the book, and saw that the characters finally start interacting with each other at about 65%. By then it was too late to pull me back into the story.