Main Characters
- Nina Riva
- Jay Riva
- Kit Riva
- Hud Riva
- June & Mick Riva
Publisher’s Summary
Malibu: August 1983. It’s the day of Nina Riva’s annual end-of-summer party, and anticipation is at a fever pitch. Everyone wants to be around the famous Rivas: Nina, the talented surfer and supermodel; brothers Jay and Hud, one a championship surfer, the other a renowned photographer; and their adored baby sister, Kit. Together the siblings are a source of fascination in Malibu and the world over—especially as the offspring of the legendary singer Mick Riva.
The only person not looking forward to the party of the year is Nina herself, who never wanted to be the center of attention, and who has also just been very publicly abandoned by her pro tennis player husband. Oh, and maybe Hud—because it is long past time for him to confess something to the brother from whom he’s been inseparable since birth.
Jay, on the other hand, is counting the minutes until nightfall, when the girl he can’t stop thinking about promised she’ll be there.
And Kit has a couple secrets of her own—including a guest she invited without consulting anyone.
By midnight the party will be completely out of control. By morning, the Riva mansion will have gone up in flames. But before that first spark in the early hours before dawn, the alcohol will flow, the music will play, and the loves and secrets that shaped this family’s generations will all come rising to the surface.
Malibu Rising is a story about one unforgettable night in the life of a family: the night they each have to choose what they will keep from the people who made them . . . and what they will leave behind.
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My Review
Taylor Jenkins Reid has written two of my favorite novels, which are “The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo” (where a few characters make an appearance) and “One True Loves”.
The reason why I didn’t enjoy “Malibu Rising” as much as her other books is because this book is simply a story, with nothing very exciting happening, just real life.
It’s about a broken family and how what you know is what you bring into and allow in your life. The book is set in the past, focusing on the Rivas parents and how their upbringing and their parents’ past influenced the choices they made in their own lives.
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She had to choose what, of the things she inherited from the people who came before her, she wanted to bring forward. And what, of the past, she wanted to leave behind.
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Malibu Rising
Nina didn’t hate Carrie Soto for stealing her husband because husbands can’t be stolen. Carrie Soto wasn’t a thief; Brandon Randall was a traitor.
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Malibu Rising
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