Malibu Rising | Taylor Jenkins Reid
- Carly
- Jul 19, 2022
- 2 min read
Reviewed by her 11 August 2021
O.M.G This book is totally WORTH ALL THE HYPE! I Loved loved loved! The story of the four
Riva siblings and their parents unfolds via flashback and hourly "party time" increments to develop a deep narrative questioning whether your parents lives become your own and if we really do inherit traits that enable history to repeat itself through the younger generations. The book is humming with lavish outrageousness and stupendous characters (lots and lots of periphery characters some needed, others just brief glimpses of their lives and first world problems) but all adding a layer of colour and depth to a wonderfully crafted story.
I thoroughly enjoyed the atmospheric setting of Malibu in the 1980s and the title is fitting of the settings journey as well as the characters, I will most certainly be picking up copies of the also hyped Seven Husbands and Daisy Jones and the Six as the style of writing really hooked me - I have no doubt her other novels will have the same impact.
An exceptional 5/5 read for me and I am so grateful for the ARC from Netgalley and the publishers in exchange for the review.
Official blurb:
A lifetime holding it together.
One party will bring it crashing down.
Malibu: August, 1983. It's the day of Nina Riva's annual end-of-summer party, and anticipation is at a fever pitch. Everyone wants to be around the famous Rivas: Nina, the talented surfer and supermodel; brothers Jay and Hud, one a championship surfer, the other a renowned photographer; and their adored baby sister, Kit. Together, the siblings are a source of fascination in Malibu and the world over-especially as the offspring of the legendary singer, Mick Riva.
By midnight the party will be completely out of control. By morning, the Riva mansion will have gone up in flames.
But before that first spark in the early hours before dawn, the alcohol will flow, the music will play, and the loves and secrets that shaped this family's generations will all come bubbling to the surface.
Malibu Rising is a story about one unforgettable night in the life of a family: the night they each have to choose what they will keep from the people who made them . . . and what they will leave behind.
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