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Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid
5.0
I willingly and uncaringly let myself pull an all-nighter right before a 10 hour shift to finish this book because I loved it so much.
Taylor Jenkins Reid outdid herself once again with Malibu Rising. I loved every second of this book, and it made me wish I had been alive during the days when Malibu was just a small little surf town before it became the money pit that it is today. As a hobby surfer who lived in California for a large portion of her life, it made me so happy to see surfing and SoCal's surf culture highlighted as such a key factor of this book and its entire plot. Reid also did a phenomenal job of knitting together both past and present as the story went back and forth between flashbacks and the prep for the party, explaining the dynamic of the Riva siblings and showing just how things changed for them over the years as they grew up with their troubled mother and their absentee father, and how even though they have issues (as families do) they still come out of it close because ultimately, all they can count on is each other.
Their absentee father who was, in fact, the same Mick Riva that was mentioned in The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo. When I realized that fact like 60% of the way through the book I felt really silly for not connecting the dots sooner.
Taylor Jenkins Reid outdid herself once again with Malibu Rising. I loved every second of this book, and it made me wish I had been alive during the days when Malibu was just a small little surf town before it became the money pit that it is today. As a hobby surfer who lived in California for a large portion of her life, it made me so happy to see surfing and SoCal's surf culture highlighted as such a key factor of this book and its entire plot. Reid also did a phenomenal job of knitting together both past and present as the story went back and forth between flashbacks and the prep for the party, explaining the dynamic of the Riva siblings and showing just how things changed for them over the years as they grew up with their troubled mother and their absentee father, and how even though they have issues (as families do) they still come out of it close because ultimately, all they can count on is each other.
Their absentee father who was, in fact, the same Mick Riva that was mentioned in The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo. When I realized that fact like 60% of the way through the book I felt really silly for not connecting the dots sooner.