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Malibu Rising

Taylor Jenkins Reid

Start date: February 1, 2023

Finish date: March 31, 2023

Why we're reading this: we are comparing to tlgad, the last time, illicit affairs, starlight and exile :)
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May 27, 2023 Grace (taylor’s version:) rated it it was amazing

OMLLLL I FINISHED THIS BOOK THIS MORNING AND I CANT STOP THINKING ABOUT IT
If I could give this six stars I would.

Like most, going into this I just thought the kids were going to be spoiled, entitled, and genuinely not good people. Boy, was I wrong. This family was EVERYTHING to me, and the way they grew throughout the book, despite their faults. Nina deserves the whole world, and as the oldest sister, I related to her more than I thought. Hud was just the sweetest human EVA and always put othe ...more

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Apr 22, 2022 Razan added it · review of another edition

Shelves: favorites, books-i-own, broke-my-heart, family-dynamics-grief, literary-fiction, historical-fiction

I wish I can write how what this book makes me feel with coherent sentences, but I literally cannot do that. Instead, I’ll write a few points that were made in the story, simply because these points are everything to me
-it’s ok to let people take care of you, it’s part of how you take care of them
-being capable or not has nothing to do with what needs to be done
-family histories will repeat, the cycle will go on
-loyalty between family members
-the people who love you stay
-someone’s love doesn’t ...more

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Jan 13, 2022 cecilia (kaz brekker’s version) rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: favorites, historical-fiction

taylor jenkins reid has done it again. this author somehow manages to convince you that all of her characters are real people and when you close the book, you start wondering how these famous surfing siblings aren’t real.

the little references to evelyn hugo and her story were so well placed and while this book is a very character driven story, the plot was never boring in any way.

another masterpiece, without a doubt.

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Mar 06, 2023 ☼Ella (evajacks’ version) ☼ rated it it was amazing

I’ve read the BIG THREE from TJR. But this one is and always will be my favourite. Nina is my favourite girl, the Riva siblings felt so real to me and I cried so much that the pages were always wet with my tears. I annotated a lot and i feel like i left a piece of mine in this book.

For me this is one of my favourite books of all time. I can’t explain how much i love this book or how real it is to me. The connection between me and these characters are so special.
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Jan 03, 2022 durga ☆ rated it really liked it

three books in and I've realized that Taylor Jenkins Reid is one of my all-time favs :)

I loved this book -- I went in expecting some sort of suspenseful mystery (don't ask me why I guess I didn't read the summary thoroughly enough) and it totally surpassed my expectations. the author has this remarkable talent for taking characters that are often viewed as obscenely privileged and one-dimensional and stripping them down in order to show that the grass isn't always greener on the other side. in a ...more

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Jan 22, 2023 ʚ vivi (taylor’s version) ɞ rated it it was amazing

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Todo el libro fue una montaña rusa de emociones y me encantó, pude verme a mi misma en Nina y supongo que eso hizo que conectara aún más con este libro.
En fin, 10/10.

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Jul 27, 2022 Lu (Taylor’s version) rated it liked it

It was good, BUT, was it good enough…? I don’t know, maybe like a solid 3.5 stars.

This book it’s a fast read, you always want to keep reading to know what it’s going to happen, and that is something that always happens in Taylor Jenkins Reid’s books, she writes stories that you feel like you a reading some gossip about a celebrity, so you want to keep reading and find out what really happened with that big star, you almost feel like they are a celebrity in real life.

Also, I love the relationsh It was good, BUT, was it good enough…? I don’t know, maybe like a solid 3.5 stars.

This book it’s a fast read, you always want to keep reading to know what it’s going to happen, and that is something that always happens in Taylor Jenkins Reid’s books, she writes stories that you feel like you a reading some gossip about a celebrity, so you want to keep reading and find out what really happened with that big star, you almost feel like they are a celebrity in real life.

Also, I love the relationship of the siblings and my favorite part was to read the scenes from the past. Showing that reality of the things you are able to leave behind just to protect the ones you love, family bonds, and how toxic could be loving someone else over you, I love all of those topics and I could relate a little bit on the siblings relationships.

However, my issue with this book in particular, it’s that I don’t feel like it has a point, it’s just like a gossip you would read in some magazine, but a really detailed one. I don’t want to compare this to her other works, BUT, the seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo and Daisy Jones and the six gave us all that background on the characters and we saw them mature and evolve in the story, and it’s something that we don’t really see in this one, because everything happens in just one day and half of the book is telling us the past of this characters.

So I think the issue was, that everything was solved so easily at like 5 minutes, with just hours the main character deconstructed her whole personality and how she felt, and she went through some shit that it’s not easy to go though, but it was just like she forgot her whole personality just because of something that happens to her in the party. There were a lot of characters, a lot of different storylines, and not so much time to deep in those stories and character developments.

If this book was telling us a story of months, even weeks, it could be somewhat believable and I would feel more connected to the characters; but just in one night…? Come on.

Despite of all, still love Taylor, and still going to read everything she releases. AND SHE ALWAYS GIVES US THE TEA. LOVE HER FOR THAT. ...more

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