i think this authors ideas a great. she has fantastic plot  and characters ideas that could be fantastic.

what i found with this book as well as with daisy jones and the six (thought daisy jones… was worse than this) is that it feels very impersonal, very much as of the author tries purposefully to keep the characters at a distance from the reader. which i do not understand since the seven husbands of evelyn  hugo were the opposite -very much making the reader feel for and with the character! 

so why did she choose to right this so distancing and making the characters not feel reachable for the reader?

beside that the story itself was good. 
i liked the story of malibu itself, the family that really wasn’t a typical one mostly because of the horrendous husband/father but they struggled through and made their own lives despise those things. 

i think it’s a nice book but it could have been better if written and told in a way that the reader would feel more connected with the characters.