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Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid

89 reviews

jor_dy's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

what i liked:
- the exploration (even if minuscule) of quite literally each and every character that is mentioned
- the summertime vibe
- easy, quick read
- the author’s understanding that humans have multiple sides, and people aren’t always 100% good (though it matter that they try to be)

- the way carrie soto immediately apologizes to nina at the party (a nice break from two women arguing over a piece of shit man)

- chosen family
- the ending
- NINA CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT

ESPECIALLY HER RANT TO MICK AT THE END UGH

- kit and ricky are literally robin and steve

the coming out scene was literally how it went in st????

what i disliked:
- characters are allowed only ONE personality trait, except nina who gets TWO because she’s the author’s favorite 😊
- the relationship between the siblings. on one hand, they love each other very much and it is clear that they would do anything for each other. but at the same time they did not feel like they were written as sibling. they felt more like childhood friends???
- the timeline was so ambiguous?? like it could be set at literally any point in history after 1950. i wish the time periods in the book were more clearly detailed and it felt like i was actually experiencing the characters in, say, the ‘60s or the ‘80s
- the omniscient, constantly switching pov. i don’t care about whoever tf wendy is get back to the main point.
- when the men in the book got mad at someone for accusing them of shit they know they did
- everything felt so utterly predictable

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Infidelity, Sexual content, Grief, Death of parent, Abandonment, and Alcohol

Moderate: Drug use, Sexual assault, Fire/Fire injury, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Miscarriage, Violence, Car accident, and Pregnancy

nina riva, a central character, is a model and as part of that she mentions being on a diet

in order to lose weight

. additionally, there is a moment where a partygoer grabs a loaded gun, which does go off in one scene toward the end of the novel.

bluedilly's review against another edition

lighthearted medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Infidelity, Death of parent, Abandonment, and Alcohol

Moderate: Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Sexual content, Police brutality, Grief, Pregnancy, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Gun violence, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, Violence, Blood, Car accident, Abortion, Fire/Fire injury, and Classism

sas_ram's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Death, Drug use, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual content, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Grief, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Miscarriage and Car accident

soshereads_'s review against another edition

emotional sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Death, Drug use, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual violence, Medical content, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Fatphobia, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Body shaming, Gun violence, Miscarriage, and Abortion

ashlikes's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cursing, Death, Infidelity, Sexual content, Grief, Death of parent, Abandonment, and Alcohol

Moderate: Drug use, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual assault, Violence, Police brutality, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Cancer, Miscarriage, Racism, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Car accident, and Abortion

nadiaherondale's review against another edition

fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

Although great, what I love the most about Taylor Jenkins Reid's books is how much she fleshes out her characters and makes me feel for them, and on Malibu Rising I think she took on more than she could. I felt like there was way too much going on, too many characters and not enough time with them, and in the end I didn't care about the Rivas, or Malibu (who I think acts as a city-protagonist or something). I'm a tiny bit disappointed, 'cause I was expecting to love this as much as my other reads by this author 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Infidelity, Sexual content, Grief, Death of parent, and Alcohol

Moderate: Misogyny, Sexism, Violence, Vomit, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Miscarriage and Pregnancy

ellis_elisha's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Death, Drug use, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, and Alcohol

Minor: Miscarriage, Vomit, Car accident, Abortion, and Pregnancy

creativelifeofliz's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

The first half of this book was pretty terrible and I actually thought about DNFing it several times. It got better for the second half, as long as you accept that there aren't any actually likeable characters. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Grief, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Classism

Moderate: Body shaming, Bullying, Miscarriage, Car accident, and Pregnancy

babsi_222's review against another edition

adventurous challenging reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

Taylor Jenkins Reid is one of my favourite authors, I think, and I’ve only read two of her books!
So this book is about a family and their history and you really get to see into each of the siblings/ and every family members mind. they’re a family who live near the ocean and I’ve never read a book that’s about surfers, which was really cool.
So there is a famous party where every hollywood star is and like the author said in the Q&A it’s really inspired by the great Gatsby. It was quite interesting, but it just kind of felt like one of those romance movies (Love Actually), because sometimes in between the chapters about the family you have like two pages where there’s a random star who hooks up with someone else or who finds the love of their life at this party, which is just so random, but kind of fun tbh
literally all of the men in this book are red flags!!!

  Oh my God the women (June and Nina) get pushed around by them, but there’s some very good character development in the end which is everything I ever wanted while reading! God I hate Mick Riva so much how can you be such a horrible person?? 

 
 To be honest I’m not sure if I’m going to read ‘Carrie Soto is back’ any time soon because she does not seem like a great person in this book. I’m sure that it’s going to be interesting but I think I just don’t wanna read it right now. 
Junes story makes me so mad omg :((( 
There’s soooo much drama at the party btw holy shit

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Police brutality, Grief, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Gun violence, Miscarriage, Violence, Vomit, Car accident, and Outing

athena10257's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Death, Drug use, Infidelity, Toxic relationship, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Abandonment, and Alcohol

Minor: Miscarriage, Car accident, and Abortion