I did like the plotline about the siblings’ childhoods and their relationship with one another. I also thought the dialogue was stilted and simplistic. But the antics of the party-goers were too over the top for even me to suspend disbelief and I didn’t really find them to be funny. I think it was supposed to be a satirical and perhaps humorous statement on how famous people lack self-awareness and can be quite horrible.

It was the party that got to me the most. I understood what Reid was trying to do but she didn’t quite get there. I can only assume that they are a lot better than Malibu Rising. Everyone raves about The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and Daisy Jones & The Six. The Riva children’s lives have been pretty chaotic over the years as well.This is the first Taylor Jenkins Reid novel that I’ve read. The party at Nina’s gets wilder and wilder as the night goes on, eventually spinning completely out of control. Nina, the oldest, raised her younger siblings – Jay and Kit also surf and Hud is a famous photographer. Their absentee father is the famous singer Mick Riva. However, there are flashbacks throughout filling us in on the Riva children and their parents. Malibu Rising ostensibly takes place on just one day in 1983 at a party thrown by Nina Riva, a famous surfer and model. This is a story about family: about what you choose to keep from the people who made you, and what you must leave behind. But before that first spark in the early hours before dawn, the alcohol will flow, the music will play and the loves and secret yearnings that shaped this family across generations will all come bubbling to the surface to make for a night no one will ever forget. And no one will know how the fire started.

As if that picture-perfect family isn't enough, their father is Mick Riva, the legendary singer.īy morning, the Riva mansion will have burned to the ground. Everyone wants to be in the company of the famous Rivas: Nina, the surfer and model her brothers, Jay and Hud, one a championship surfer, the other his renowned photographer and Kit, the adored baby of the family. Malibu is buzzing with anticipation for Nina Riva's annual party. But over the course of one night, each of their lives will be changed forever in this propulsive novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Daisy Jones & The Six.

Four famous siblings throw an epic party to celebrate the end of the summer.

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