Malibu Rising
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Rave
Positive
Mixed
Pan
Malibu Rising
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Rave
Positive
Mixed
Pan
Rave
Positive
Mixed
Pan
There’s an impeccable sense of balance in Taylor Jenkins Reid’s Malibu Rising, a natural order in which every action meets its equal and opposite reaction.
Structurally, Malibu Rising is tight and propulsive ...Each sibling has their own storyline, subplots that have a gossipy and compelling, if slightly obvious feel.
With this book, Taylor Jenkins Reid delivers a multifaceted perspective on family, love, fame and what it takes to start over.
Reid’s dialogue wants to capture the tone of the young, the beautiful and athletic, but much of it feels lazy to the point of being cringe-worthy. The dialogue and interior monologue can be juvenile, filled with repeated expletives that can’t be quoted here, but wear thin and detract from the overall effect, rather than adding to the portrait of these characters, as Reid presumably intends. It was fine and fitting in Reid’s previous book, Daisy Jones & The Six a fictional oral history of a rock band. But Malibu Rising is a different kind of novel, with a voice that could have used elevating..
In Malibu Rising, Reid capitalizes on her winning formula to create another bona fide hit, this time spinning a decadent family drama that revolves around a single life-changing day in 1983.
Reid’s descriptions of Malibu are so evocative that readers will swear they feel the sea breeze on their faces or the grit of the sand between their toes. The Rivas have a believable sibling dynamic, and the family members are complex and delightfully flawed (especially Mick, whose bad decisions reverberate throughout the novel). A compulsively readable story about the bonds between family members and the power of breaking free..
Reid (Daisy Jones and the Six) unfurls a fast-paced and addictive story of a group of celebrity siblings in Malibu.