I was kind of into this at first, and I was into the premise. But it was increasingly hard to buy part one as a novel or something anyone would want to read, as other reviewers noted. I’ve read Wharton and this ain’t it. It read like a Wikipedia entry - again, as other reviewers have noted. And I was unsure of what could be revealed in the following parts that would be surprising.

Then I started the second part and was very bummed to discover I was going to have to read about this family’s financial and business history… Finance and economics are things I’ve read multiple nonfiction works about in an attempt to understand - I do not want it in my fiction.