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Malibu Rising: A Novel Kindle Edition

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Read with Jenna Book Club Pick as Featured on Today * From the author of Carrie Soto Is Back, Daisy Jones & The Six, and The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo . . .

"Irresistible . . . High drama at the beach, starring four sexy, surfing siblings and their deadbeat, famous-crooner dad."—People

ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, Time, Marie Claire, PopSugar, Parade, Teen Vogue, Self, She Reads

Four famous siblings throw an epic party to celebrate the end of the summer. But over the course of twenty-four hours, the family drama that ensues will change their lives forever.

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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An Amazon Best Book of June 2021: This book is perfect for summer—think movie stars and surfing, flawed but loving siblings, and an epic party that ends in disaster. While the book unfolds during the course of a single day, flashbacks to when the siblings were kids and their rock star father abandoned them time and again reveal the complex dynamics still in force in their adulthood. After I finished this book, I would dream of these characters and their restaurant by the sea. Malibu Rising is a fun, unforgettable read. —Al Woodworth, Amazon Book Review

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“If summer could somehow fit into a book, then you’d find it in Malibu Rising.”—Oprah Daily

“Reid has once again crafted a fast-paced, engaging novel that smoothly transports readers between decades and story lines.”—The Washington Post

“Taylor Jenkins Reid soars with Malibu Rising.”—Associated Press

“Reid delivers a breathtaking, epic family novel.”—Marie Claire

“A compulsively fun read.”—Today

“Reid’s descriptions of Malibu are so evocative that readers will swear they feel the sea breeze on their faces or the grit of the sand between their toes. . . . A compulsively readable story about the bonds between family members and the power of breaking free.”—Kirkus Reviews

“Whatever Reid releases has become a major literary event. And her latest more than lives up to the expectations.”—E! Online

“Malibu Rising is a fun, unforgettable read.”—Business Insider

“Delicious drama.”—Vogue

“A must-read.”—Parade

“Taylor Jenkins Reid sure knows how to tell a story. . . . It’s an unforgettable book about an unforgettable night.”—HelloGiggles

About the Author

Taylor Jenkins Reid is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of eight novels, including Carrie Soto Is Back, Malibu Rising, Daisy Jones & The Six, and The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and their daughter.

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Our family histories are simply stories. They are myths we create about the people who came before us, in order to make sense of ourselves.

The story of June and Mick Riva seemed like a tragedy to their oldest child, Nina. It felt like a comedy of errors to their first son, Jay. It was an origin story for their second son, Hud. And a mystery to the baby of the family, Kit. To Mick himself it was just a chapter of his memoir.

But to June, it was, always and forever, a romance.

• • •

Mick Riva first met June Costas when she was a seventeen-year-old girl on the shores of Malibu. It was 1956, a few years before the Beach Boys got there, mere months before Gidget would begin to beckon teenagers to the waves in droves.

Back then, Malibu was a rural fishing town with only one traffic signal. It was quiet coastline, crawling inland by way of narrow winding roads through the mountains. But the town was coming into its adolescence. Surfers were setting up shop with their tiny shorts and longboards, bikinis were coming into fashion.

June was the daughter of Theo and Christina, a middle-class couple who lived in a two-bedroom ranch home off one of Malibu’s many canyons. They owned a struggling restaurant called Pacific Fish, slinging crab cakes and fried clams just off the Pacific Coast Highway. Its bright red sign with cursive type hung high in the air, beckoning you from the east side of the highway to look away from the water for just one moment and eat something deep fried with an ice-cold Coca-Cola.

Theo ran the fryer, Christina ran the register, and on nights and weekends, it was June’s job to wipe down the tables and mop the floors.

Pacific Fish was both June’s duty and her inheritance. When June’s mother vacated that spot at the counter, it was expected that it would be June’s body that filled it. But June felt destined for bigger things, even at seventeen.

June beamed on the rare occasion that a starlet or director would come into the restaurant. She could recognize all of them the second they walked in the door because she read the gossip rags like bibles, appealing to her father’s soft spot to get him to buy her a copy of Sub Rosa or Confidential every week. When June scrubbed ketchup off the tables, she imagined herself at the Pantages Theatre for a movie premiere. When she swept the salt and sand off the floors, she wondered how it might feel to stay at the Beverly Hilton and shop at Robinson’s. June marveled at what a world the stars lived in. Just a few miles away and yet impossible for her to touch because she was stuck serving french fries to tourists.

June’s joy was something she stole between shifts. She would sneak out at night, sleep in when she could. And, when her parents were at work but did not yet need her, June would cross the Pacific Coast Highway and rest her blanket in the expanse of sand opposite her family’s restaurant. She would bring a book and her best bathing suit. She would fry her pale body under the sun, sunglasses over her eyes, eyes on the water. She would do this every Saturday and Sunday until ten-thirty in the morning, when reality pulled her back to Pacific Fish.

One particular Saturday morning during the summer of ’56, June was standing on the shoreline, her toes in the wet sand, waiting for the water to feel warmer on her feet before she waded in. There were surfers in the waves, fishermen down the coast, teens like her laying out blankets and rubbing lotion on their arms.

June had felt daring that morning and put on a blue gingham strapless bikini. Her parents had no idea it even existed. She’d gone into Santa Monica with her girlfriends and had seen it hanging in a boutique. She’d bought it with money she’d saved from tips, borrowing the last three dollars from her friend Marcie.

She knew if her mother saw it, she’d be forced to return it or worse yet, throw it out. But she wanted to feel pretty. She wanted to put out a signal and see if anyone answered.

June had dark brown hair cut into a bob, a button nose, and pert bow lips. She had big, light brown eyes that held the giddiness that often accompanies hope. That bikini held promise.

As she stood at the shoreline that morning, she felt almost naked. Sometimes, she felt a little guilty about how much she liked her own body. She liked the way her breasts filled out her bikini top, the way her waist pulled in and then ebbed out again. She felt alive, standing there, partially exposed. She bent down and ran her hands through the cold water rising up to her feet.

A twenty-three-year-old, as-yet-unknown Michael Riva was swimming in the surf. He was with three of the friends he’d made while hanging out in the clubs of Hollywood. He’d been in L.A. for two years, having left the Bronx behind, running west in search of fame.

He was finding his footing coming out of a wave when his gaze fell on the girl standing alone along the shore. He liked her figure. He liked the way she stood there, shy and companionless. He smiled at her.

June smiled back. And so Mick ditched his friends and headed toward her. When he finally made his way over, a drop of ice-cold water fell from his arm onto hers. She found herself flattered by his attention even before he said hello.

Mick was undeniably handsome with his hair slicked back from the ocean, his tan, broad shoulders shining in the sun, his white swimming trunks fitting him just so. June liked his lips—how the bottom was so full it looked swollen, and the top was thinner and had a perfect little v in the center.

He held out his hand. “I’m Mick.”

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B08HY4KKB5
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Ballantine Books (June 1, 2021)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ June 1, 2021
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 5380 KB
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 386 pages

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Taylor Jenkins Reid is the New York Times bestselling author of Daisy Jones & The Six and The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, as well as One True Loves, Maybe in Another Life, After I Do, and Forever, Interrupted. Her newest novel, Malibu Rising, is out now. She lives in Los Angeles.

You can follow her on Instagram @tjenkinsreid.

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Frank Thomas

Hell yes, buy this book!

Reviewed in the United States on November 3, 2021

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It’s the end of summer, 1983 in Malibu, California: time for the last days on the beach, the end of tourist season, the end of tourist season, and the annual bash thrown by a surfing family of local celebrities. But when that family’s secrets bubble up through the course of the day and the party, will it be the end of the celebration and that family’s bond? Taylor Jenkins Reid explores one family’s legacy in her 2021 novel, Malibu Rising.

Malibu Rising follows the Riva siblings: bubbly surf supermodel Nina; cocky and suave pro surfer, Jay; Jay’s (sorta) twin and photographer, Hudson; and headstrong youngest child, Kit. As the summer of 1983 winds to a close, the entire town looks forward to the party to end all parties. It defines and reflects your social standing in town; no one in uninvited, but only those “in” enough to know about the party know its location. And this year’s party is at the palatial home that Nina shares with her pro tennis player husband. However, the family looks forward to the party as a distraction from issues both public and private. Nina’s husband has left her—very publicly—for a mercurial tennis pro. Jay has a health secret that could derail his surfing career. Hud has a secret love that would severely damage his relationship with Jay if it ever got out. And Kit secretly deals with figuring herself out while trying to be taken seriously as a surfer. The various dramas crash and roll over the course of a single day, as flashbacks delve into their collective childhood and the background of their parents: Malibu native, June, whose family ran a local seafood restaurant, and 60’s pop icon, Mick Riva. That rise-and-fall love story (tragically) plays out parallel to the main plot, and shows how these kids’ complex relationship with their parents still affect their lives.

Taylor Jenkins Reid understands who her characters are, even better than they do, and it’s impressive and fun to see their relationships take shape over the course of the narrative. The siblings’ pack dynamic is effective and—coming from a large family, myself—feels realistic and familiar. Families are complicated and fickle things, and this one is handled beautifully. Also, the specter of their famous father looms large over their lives, even though his presence is sporadic at best. June Riva is a good parent in that she never actively spoke ill of her ex-husband, and that’s another thing that feels accurate. I enjoyed June and Mick’s tragic story, and the role it played in binding these people to one another. Lastly, I appreciate the effort to make this family, who are nearly revered by the locals, seem almost normal. They don’t care who their friends are, in the sense that some were famous, some were not, but everyone was who came to the party was welcomed. Little things like that make me thoroughly enjoy characters.

I generally try to find something, a flaw or detail that I didn’t 100% love, to make the case that I’m being objective. Nothing is perfect, art least of all. I can’t find it in this one. It was marvelously executed and I loved it wire-to-wire, as I did with her previous book. What I can say (though with not the least bit of seriousness) is that I found out about an Easter egg from a previous book of hers, and now my completionist ass has to read that book to get the full, 100% understanding of Malibu Rising. Not cool, TJR.

That said, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo is on my 2022 reading queue. I’ll review that ASAP.

Look, when the mind behind Daisy Jones & The Six puts out a new book, you buy and read the book. It’s that simple. Buy the damn thing.

Pros: Strong family dynamic, fun plot, well-paced, fascinating character study.

Cons: Reference to one of Taylor Jenkins Reid’s previous novels forces completionists to fork over more money for more brilliant writing, adding one more thing to an already overloaded TBR list.

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars.

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Jose

An Authoritative, Literary Voice Delivers a Compelling and Engaging Narrative

Reviewed in the United States on June 12, 2021

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This was the first work of Reid’s which I have read, being aware that she has been highly successful coming off the critical acclaim of 2017’s Evelyn Hugo and 2019’s Daisy Jones. First impressions are everything and when you stumble across such acclaim, it becomes inevitable to ask: what is the it-factor? That quality that makes an author be noticed and admirable in writing talent?

You could arguably say that there is only one it-factor. If there is only one factor, then TJR has it. In one word, it is: voice.

Reid has one of the most authoritative storytelling voices. And that authority allows her to achieve that one thing that I obsess over and value disproportionate to the tastes and opinions of other people: perfect pacing - or at least 9.9/10 type of pacing. Debating whether a novel is well-paced or too slow and sluggish is something I treat like a crusade when I pick up a book. It can have the best and most well-developed characters, the most interesting setting and plot premise, but if it moves like a snail or a cheetah then I will not want it. It will not be something that holds my attention.

An authoritative voice is when the writer makes you pay attention to every page and every little incident, detail, and development. The details do not even have to be all that interesting or thematically deep. The capacity to enthrall a reader is almost separated from the actual events that are happening in the narrative. In other words, it is not the what that is important, it is the how . What you are describing or communicating to the reader is not as important as how you describe and communicate it. I appreciate when an author is committed to developing a unique and strong narrative voice.

Malibu Rising is written to be enthralling. From the plot description to the pacing, it is itself obsessed with making the reader fully immersed in the narrative. Its mission: to never want you to close the book. The story follows 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 - in the town of Malibu, August 1983, as they are preparing to host their annual party of the year. Where the story begins early at 7 in the morning, we follow the build-up, chaos, and excitement of the subsequent twenty-four hours. In between, we also get glimpses into the stories of their parents: June and Mick Riva.

I would say that the character of Mick Riva himself embodies what I mean when I say that Malibu Rising is intent on having you be obsessed with him. He is legendary, he garners all the attention in the room. But even then, he is not the sole star of the show. When a character appears halfway through the novel, previously mentioned only in conversation between characters and in passing at that, Reid only needs about two or three pages before their story appears significant and before they seem like the protagonist of their own stories. In this case, I was referring to the character - Brandon. He is Nina’s professional tennis player ex-husband and he is fully fleshed over the relatively short page-length where his story takes center stage. And the entire cast of characters are like that. All four siblings have their insecurities, flaws, strengths and weaknesses explored and built on. The people who are significant in their own lives receive their moments in the spotlight. Reid’s ability to efficiently characterize her cast considering the standard length of her novel is astounding. Part of the irony that this book is about the “biggest party of the year” in Malibu is that by efficiently exploring the lives of all the people who attended that party, even if they only appeared for half a dozen pages, the reader has this feeling that the scope of this party is large. It feels truly alive because of the reader’s knowledge and understanding of all the characters and what they are going through.

And it worked. I loved those Riva kids. I was enraptured in the tumultuous love story of June and Mick Rivas. I was captivated by all of them as people. We see where they come from and where they go and Reid makes sure to deliver all the emotional catharsis necessary to make their stories feel meaningful. By the time we reach the concluding pages, I had this genuine sense that the characters at the start of the story were not the same by the end - for better or worse.

I know some people did not like TJR’s insistence on giving attention to all the side characters. I understand that many did not fully buy into the emotional message and themes Reid tried to explore. I also do somewhat agree that the novel never becomes that complex and can come off as more of a melodramatic soap opera. However, I think that the attention and respect given to each of the central characters makes the eventual conflicts genuinely emotional, rather than contrived and overdramatic.

There is something about TJR’s writing that is extraordinarily compelling. I hope to go back and read her other works because if they are anywhere as good as Malibu Rising , then this is an author I want to continue to follow.

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Daniel Grundman

Casos de família.

Reviewed in Brazil on April 15, 2024

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Certeza que a Jenkins assistiu Casos de Família no SBT para escrever esse aqui. Fofoca boa, a leitura é muito tranquila e prende a atenção. Gostei! Agora a capa tem essa proteção de papel que é horrível, porem a capa dura é muito feia, não combina nada com a história. Pq fizeram isso? Espero que os outros livros tenham o mesmo desempenho, agora quero ler Carrie Soto (descarada) is back.