Malibu Rising Review
This is yet another book that I have listened to on Spotify, and unfortunately another novel that I have not really enjoyed. Taylor Jenkins Reid is not my favourite author and I found her previous work just fine and definitely overhyped, but I heard good things about ‘Malibu Rising’ so I decided to give it a chance. If it has changed my opinion of Taylor Jenkins Reid, it was not for the better. ‘Malibu Rising’ is about the Riva family, now consisting of four siblings and their estranged father- Mick Riva, a successful singer and performer. The structure of counting down until the massive fire engulfing Malibu and flashbacks to Mick and his wife’s meeting and many breakups was probably the most interesting part of the story and was utilized successfully. However, nothing else truly worked well. First of all, Taylor Jenkins Reid is known for her temporal settings such as the Golden Age of Hollywood in ‘Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo’ or the 1970 in ‘ Daisy Jones & the Six’. In the oth...