Displaying 1 - 30 of 71, 127 reviews. Is the 1980s and everyone wants to go to the party of the year! As I started to read the book, I started to warm up to it and started to really enjoy it although I do think a few of the stories dragged on a bit too long. Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid. Person who sings opera. I love the way im always pulled into her books. This broke my heart and then, June promised herself she would raise that baby and love him as much as she loved Nina and Jay. The sexual harassment she put up with turned my stomach!
Because the writing style keeps readers at arm's length, it does not feel like i know these characters. …] 'you people are revolting. My heart warmed up when I read four siblings' close, honest relationships. Previous review: oNCE MORE, TAYLOR JENKINS REID DID IT. This means we have a Jenkinsverse™??? Just in case you're wondering. I want to chalk this up to the fact that in both scenarios, i had never read a taylor jenkins reid or v. e. schwab book, respectively, and so had no biases or expectations coming into either book. She is a famous opera singer. At times, i forgot that i wasn't reading contemporary fiction. TJR never disappoints. You've been warned, my friend. Don't care what flavors, just gimme a bite. And at the end, both make sense, they're the same ending basically; it's the explanation of the Riva family. At the end she learns to stand up for herself, rejecting to be the victim of the story!
Malibu Rising tells the story of the Riva family, from the 1950's, when June and Mick first met and fell in love, to the 1980's, when their children are grown, and having their annual party. This was very much commercial fiction and i'm wondering if that—commercial/genre trends—hasn't had some kind of effect on the quality of writing. I know a lot of people will enjoy this story and I did enjoy large parts of it. And it's certainly not TJR at her best. They're famous and recognized in Malibu, and all over the world. In Malibu Rising, one night truly does change everything, and together one family will begin to separate themselves from the things that they wish to leave behind and hold tight to all that they can accomplish together. I leave you with one small except: "Every day of your life feels like you're climbing up a mountain. But, I had something different. We have two timelines: the day of the party and Mick and June's story. They had an unbreakable bond and surfing was their glue. But oh dear.... What is an opera singer. "Taylor, I love enjoyed all your previous "Malibu Rising", is not your best work. This book is beautiful, emotion, and heart jerking! Even though I gave four fantastic historical, sweet sixties, viva X generation stars, I can honestly say I loved to read this book and to be introduced with those shiny, well-crafted characters. Jan Alice in Wonderland.
The pacing was amazing, the plots, the romance, the characters, the writing. I am someone with three of them, and I downright adore those bozos. How did that happen? More often than not, i found the prose in this novel aggravating, prone to drama, awkwardly descriptive in places and absolutely barren in others. Inseparable brothers Jay and Hud are on a collision course for a confession that could ruin their entire relationship, and youngest Kit harbors a secret, a guest she invited without consulting anyone. I find myself once again reading a TJR book and reconsidering my life decisions leading to me this point. Hud and Jay were both ok, and I did like their brotherly bond.
There's nothing I love reading about more than found families and real families. I giggled the sarcastic humor of the author when she described the party animal celebrities! I honestly admire Nina. The life-altering journeys. May The Color Purple. Quise golpearte demasiadas veces por todo lo que June sufrió, por tu pinche culpa. And it saddens me that the Riva family's story is squandered. MY EYES WERE ROLLING. Now available in the UK*. I honestly thought that they had grown up being recognized by people, that they had grown up with fame surrounding them or something like that: spoiled kids having the world at their feet, just like Mick.
Iconic singer Mick can't keep it in his pants, despite his marriage and later remarriage to kind-hearted June, but one good thing that does come out of the marriage is their children: Nina, Jay and later Kit. This is gonna be one of the most thought provoking, sensational, popular fictions of the next year and I'm so happy to have privilege to read its advance copy! How is this achieved? Surfers were setting up shop with your tiny shorts, longboards, and bikinis were coming into fashion. In the goodreads version of this review, i'm only going to touch on one of those romances: june and mick riva.
The only person not looking forward to the party of the year is Nina herself, who never wanted to be the center of attention, and who has also just been very publicly abandoned by her pro tennis player husband. I'm definitely gonna want more of this. Looooved, loooved this one, as I do with all of Reid's novels. Nina and kit, one of which i was pleased to accurately predict was—spoiler—gay. There is no invitation. Oh, and maybe Hud—because it is long past time to confess something to the brother from whom he's been inseparable since birth. Twitter | Bookstagram | Youtube |.
Malibu rising features a weak facsimile of old hollywood, only believable in that the men of this world are unrepentantly shitty and more often white than not. It was a glory time of day for serious surfers.... And I'm satisfied with the results. Just dive in with no expectations and ride the wave of TJR's skillful storytelling. AND I LOVE BOOKS ABOUT SIBLINGS. It's a lot like listening to a radio station that's nothing but static at the highest possible volume setting. I think I've hit my quota of sad stories for a while though. I was shaken to the core, emotions are everywhere after reading Mick and June's tragic, blasting, heartbreaking story! And then you get there and you stay for a bit.
And.... 'Lame', a popular slang saying in 1983... was kinda 'lame'. The one who will sacrifice her own desires and dreams to hold her family together. There are two interwoven plot lines, the day of the party, we the reader, are taken through hour by hour leading up to the annual soirée. For me, it rang true, and I was struck by how much I connected with so many different characters and their emotions. I 'went with it'.... This is the type of book that will have you thinking about it for days. The novel's scandalous nature feels forced and excessive, as if this time around, TJR is striving for shock rather than heart.
Hud, the surfer photographer who's keeping a big secret from his brother, Jay. I did it again because I loved the idea of how it'd look. It's a tale of functional and dysfunctional relationships and families all wrapped up in the setting of a party, and it's been done many times before.