Ok this was a ride.
For context, I’ve read Daisy Jones & Malibu rising before this book.

I think this book starts out incredibly strong. I’m intrigued and engaged for the first 25%. However, somewhere along the 40-50% mark it starts to feel endless. It felt like there was one (or two) too many marriages and Evelyn kept sabotaging the harmony of her love life for the sake of her carrier. 
That whole middle chunk of the book made me feel like I was stuck in a time loop repeating the same day.
The only thing pushing me forward to continue reading was my intrigue of Monique’s connection to Evelyn. 

It does pick up again in the last 20% of the book but by then my heart just wasn’t in it anymore.

Having read some of the later novels in the “Riva-verse”, I will say that it’s cool to see where TJR started and how far she’s come at developing these famous personas.

Lastly, I would like to petition for TJR to release a photo book with Evelyn, Celia and the gang’s outfits throughout the decades!!!