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Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid
4.0

The first part of the story
Slow start, same old story about girl meets boy, they get married and she gets pregnant. He lives his life in full while she stays at home. On and off again and again over the years. The kids grow up and here’s where the things start to be a bit more interesting.

The second half
Way too many characters and a bit difficult to keep up with everything and everyone as we are told a bit of a back story for each one of them and how they go on their daily routine. I honestly felt like I needed a map to remember who is who and what they are to each other.
Somehow the girl gets to live part of her mothers' life and that part wasn’t funny at all.
They have a big party and there are a few twists that I haven’t seen coming my way.
Overall it’s a good book, one that I’m sure many will love and rightly so because it’s well done and it resembles the 80’s lifestyle and crazy times.

Very grateful to the publisher for my review copy