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Turn Out the Lights, the Party’s Over

Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid

May 18, 2022 by jeverett15 Leave a Comment

On the night of their famous end of summer party the four Riva children would seem to the outside world to have it all. Nina, the oldest, is a famous model living in a cliffside mansion bought by her tennis-star husband. Jay Riva is a champion surfer frequently on magazine covers in photos taken by his half-brother Hudson, while youngest child Kit is still in college and a promising surfer in her own right. But as they spend the day of August 27, 1983 preparing […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Taylor Jenkins Reid

jeverett15's CBR14 Review No:23 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Taylor Jenkins Reid ·
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Grab bag of goodness!

Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Wendy, Darling by A.C. Wise

Cat Chaser by Elmore Leonard

April 18, 2022 by TylerDFC Leave a Comment

I’m starting to get behind so I’m going with the group review format. I didn’t know how to do this until now so I’m hoping this saves my season when my laziness/procrastination (fine, its mostly because of Elden Ring) prevents me from getting my reviews written. These are three books that are very different in genre, but all quite good and recommended.   Malibu catches fire. It is simply what Malibu does from time to time. Tornadoes take the flatlands of the Midwest. Floods rise […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Fiction, Horror, Mystery, Suspense Tagged With: A.C. Wise, Cat Chaser, Elmore Leonard, malibu rising, Taylor Jenkins Reid, TylerDFC, wendy darling

TylerDFC's CBR14 Review No:14 · Genres: Children's Books, Fiction, Horror, Mystery, Suspense · Tags: A.C. Wise, Cat Chaser, Elmore Leonard, malibu rising, Taylor Jenkins Reid, TylerDFC, wendy darling ·
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The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

February 22, 2022 by Classic Leave a Comment

I have heard about this book for the past couple of years. I wanted to go back to read it because outside of Daisy Jones and the Six (audio version) I haven’t been able to get into Taylor Jenkins Reid’s books that much. I think my main problem is that with a lot of her work, when she’s writing about people of color, it just feels off in a way. I also thought that the greatest love of Evelyn’s life was self absorbed and manipulative. […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Taylor Jenkins Reid

Classic's CBR14 Review No:49 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Taylor Jenkins Reid ·
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Book cover: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo. A woman stands in a glamorous green dress. We cannot see her face.

Celia Sucks: A Rant About Evelyn Hugo

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

January 27, 2022 by Sofi Keren Leave a Comment

Once a year it’s my turn to pick a book for my long-running book club. And every year, I choose a book about lesbians. Last time, it was The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters. One of my book club friends’ grandma decided to read it also and was mildly scandalized by the fairly graphic sex scenes. This year I chose The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, mostly because lesbian Twitter called it dramatic adjectives like “gutting.” My guts stayed firmly in place, but I did […]

Filed Under: Book Club, Fiction Tagged With: Hollywood, husbands, lgbtq fiction, Spoilers, Taylor Jenkins Reid

Sofi Keren's CBR14 Review No:4 · Genres: Book Club, Fiction · Tags: Hollywood, husbands, lgbtq fiction, Spoilers, Taylor Jenkins Reid ·
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Surf and Secrets in Malibu

Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid

January 12, 2022 by Pooja 8 Comments

‘The Malibu fire of 1983 started not in the dry hills but on the coastline. It began at 28150 Cliffside Drive on Saturday, August 27—at the home of Nina Riva—during one of the most notorious parties in Los Angeles history. The annual party grew wildly out of control sometime around midnight. By 7:00 a.m., the coastline of Malibu was engulfed in flames. Because, just as it is in Malibu’s nature to burn, so was it in one particular person’s nature to set fire and walk […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: family, Fiction, historical, popsugar, Taylor Jenkins Reid

Pooja's CBR14 Review No:5 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: family, Fiction, historical, popsugar, Taylor Jenkins Reid ·
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Taylor Jenkins Reid is one of my favorite current authors

The Seven Husband's of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

December 15, 2021 by msvreadsbooks Leave a Comment

God I love this book! I think I’ve loved everything I’ve read from Taylor Jenkins Reid. I’m in the middle of Malibu Rising, and it has yet to disappoint. Anyway, back to The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo. Evelyn Hugo is Old Hollywood royalty, a la Elizabeth Taylor. And she’s plucked a young writer, Monique Grant, out of relative obscurity to write her biography which is sure to sell millions of copies and launch her career to the stratosphere. Monique just has to wait to publish her […]

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msvreadsbooks's CBR13 Review No:54 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Taylor Jenkins Reid ·
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  • esmemoria on What Else Would You Look With?I wonder if the audio brings out the best in the novel. The last part of the book was pretty great, but I had so...
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