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Taylor Jenkins Reid, the author of Daisy Jones and The Six<\/em> returns with a gloriously meaty evocation of 1980s California luxury and excess, and one night that will send the Riva family’s glittering world crumbling down around them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Malibu Rising<\/em> tells the story of a dysfunctional, well-known family who throws a massive annual celebration in Malibu. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Everything is going according to plan, and celebrities from all walks of life are having a good time – until something occurs in 24 hours that changes the family’s lives forever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We will talk about what happens in this story in more detail and will follow it with an in depth review. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What Is Malibu Rising About?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Nina wakes up in 1983 to a day she is dreading. It’s the day before her yearly party at her big property on Point Dume, high above the ocean. But things aren’t going well in her life, and she’s not sure she wants to be around so many people today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nina, on the other hand, is a survivor and a doer, so she steels herself to simply get on with it. Her first task is to meet up with her younger siblings at the family restaurant she’s now in charge of, and then maybe go surfing at the beach. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The way it works is that if you know the address of the party, you’re invited – Nina is anticipating a large crowd tonight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nina is a tall, lithe, altruistic, proud, and capable young woman who, at the age of 17, saved her three younger siblings from social services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nina and her two brothers are well-known: Jay is a world-class surfer. Hud is a skilled photographer who “captures what his brother can achieve on the board in ideal light and action.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kit, the youngest member of the surfing-gifted family, is the unrecognized finest athlete. At the age of 20, she has never been kissed and is debating the reasons behind this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

June is their mother, a nice woman who meets an unknown Mick in 1956. Despite her mother’s concerns about what may happen after their first kiss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mick Riva, an aspiring singer, is relaxing on the beach when he notices June, the daughter of a local restaurant’s proprietors, posing in her new bikini. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mick, who is instantly drawn to her, takes no time in introducing himself and then seducing her with his slick manners and confident ambition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He promises to purchase her the mansion of her dreams when he becomes famous. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When the bookings start to pile up and the route to fame and money looks like it could finally happen, he buys the beach house he always promised her he would.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mick is soon sidetracked by a beautiful woman, then another, and another, for a total of six weddings. He is not a bad guy. He may be a deadbeat dad, but isn’t it his parents’ fault for providing such poor models of parenting and fidelity?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Following the establishment of the family’s history in the first few chapters, we are transported back to 1983, when Nina is preparing for her annual summer party, which she is not very happy about because she dislikes being the focus of attention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jay, on the other hand, is counting down the minutes till the girl he can’t stop thinking about says she’ll be there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And Kit has a few secrets of her own, including a visitor she invited without informing anybody.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The celebration will be absolutely out of control by midnight. The Riva house will be in flames by the morning. However, before that first spark in the early hours of the morning, the booze will flow, the music will play, and the loves and secrets that have molded this family’s generations will all bubble to the surface.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Malibu Rising<\/em> is a narrative about one extraordinary night in a family’s life: the night they each have to pick what they will retain from the people who created them… and what they will leave behind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Malibu Rising Review<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

It began as a love tale, but Mick Riva wasn’t created to love only one lady; he was made for a career in music, and that’s exactly what he accomplished. June, his wife, was designed for loving, but since her husband was away, she simply had to love her children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nina, Jay, and the third, who wasn’t her child at all, but she couldn’t just turn her back on Mick’s son Hud, who had been abandoned by his mother. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last but not least, Kit, who was born after her parents’ relationship had already broken down multiple times.<\/p>\n\n\n