Songs of the humpback whale

I love Jodi Picoult but this book was just an absolute train wreck.The story is told from five different perspectives: Jane (the mother), Oliver (the father), Rebecca (the daughter), Joley (the mother's brother), and Sam (the random guy). The beginning confused me a lot, as Rebecca's perspective is a random scene which characters who haven't even been introduced yet. I shrugged it off because, you know, it's Jodi Picoult and I love her.

A little halfway into the book, I got used to the weird POVs, but I had a new problem. The characters. They annoyed me to no end. Jane was extremely immature to the point where I honestly thought her 15 year old daughter was more mature than her. She meets 25 year old Sam, hates him for 2 days (quite exaggeratedly must I add) and then falls in love with him the next three days and even sleeps with him although she is technically still married. During all this Rebecca falls head over heals with another 25 year old, and sleeps with him. Like mother like daughter. Oliver saves a whale instead of trying to find his own family. Joley... Joley was the most normal even though Jodi made him seem like he is practically inappropriately inlove with his sister. Hadley was a player.

Oh, and I rooted for Oliver throughout the whole book. He could have slept with that one lady but he decided against it. Even though he possesive, I felt like he deserved a happy ending. However, Jane slept with Sam despite being married to Oliver. I know cheating isn't that big of a deal because it seems to happen so often nowadays but I'm old fashioned and I thought that maybe Jane would be stronger than that.

Just. Ugh. This book. I don't even know.