5, 6, 7, 8. Storm.

Hi, y'all. Welcome or welcome back to Gilmore to Read. I'm your host, Haley, and I'm so glad you're here today.

Gilmore girls' season is underway. It is absolutely Gilmore Girl season. The laws are lying and Gilmore to

Reed is also picking up steam for the fall season. There will be more episodes through October and

November as we hear from more and more Gilmore Girls loving authors. There is nothing more

more cozy than an autumn full of books and Gilmore Girls and I love that we can bring those

together here on Gilmore to

read. I know how much y'all love hearing from people watching the show for the first time,

and today's guest is doing just that, truly one of my favorite new watcher conversations

because it is none other than author Sarah McLean. But before we get into my conversation with Sarah,

I want to tell you a bit about her latest book, which came out earlier this summer in July, called The Summer Storms. I absolutely loved this book. I have been describing it, pitching it to people, trying to convince people to read it by saying that it is Succession. If Lord Like Gilmore joined the Roy family, the synopsis reads, Alice isn't like the other

storm siblings. While the rest stayed to battle for their parents' approval, attention, and

untold billions, she left building her life beyond the family's name and influence. Nothing could

induce her to come back except the shocking death of her larger-than-life father. Now back in the

family's private island off the Rhode Island coast, she plans to keep her head down, pay the death of her larger-than-life father. Now back in the family's private island off the

Rhode Island coast, she plans to keep her head down, pay the last of her respects, and leave the minute

the funeral is over. Unfortunately, her father had other plans. The eccentric, manipulative patriarch

left his widow and their grown children a final challenge. An inheritance game designed to

humiliate, devastate, and unravel the storm family in ways both petty and life-altering. The rules of the game are clear. Stay on the island for one week, complete the tasks, receive the inheritance. Every corner of the sprawling old house is bursting dysfunctional chaos. Her older sister's secret love affair, her brother's incessant mansplaining, her sister-in-law's unapologetic greed,

her mother's penchant for stirring up competition between her children, and all under the stern,

watchful gaze of Jack Dean, her father's enigmatic, unfairly good-looking second in command.

It will be a miracle if Alice manages to escape the weak unscathed, a story about the transformative

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