Reviews tagging Death

Malibu Rising, by Taylor Jenkins Reid

167 reviews

amgarrido's review

adventurous emotional hopeful medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Alcoholism, Grief, Injury/injury detail, Pregnancy, Alcohol, Violence, Infidelity, Sexual content, and Abandonment

zara89's review against another edition

reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Addiction, Alcohol, Suicide attempt, Death, Death of parent, and Alcoholism

Moderate: Infidelity

Minor: Car accident, Pregnancy, Police brutality, Gun violence, Fire/Fire injury, Abortion, and Miscarriage

kaitlynnnng's review

dark fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

Mick Riva is a piece of garbage.

Spoiler

I found myself incredibly angry every time Mick and Brandon’s infidelity was brought up. I hate cheaters in real life, and I hated reading about cheaters.

Some of the chapters about other people at the party were interesting, but I found most of them to be confusing and unnecessary.

To me, this book didn’t have a “wow” factor, but I did enjoy reading it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Addiction, Alcohol, and Infidelity

Moderate: Abandonment, Pregnancy, Chronic illness, Emotional abuse, Death, Death of parent, Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Minor: Abortion, Gun violence, Sexual content, Miscarriage , Car accident, and Domestic abuse

nataliapassos's review

emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Death of parent, Infidelity, and Death

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Car accident and Pregnancy

marieos's review against another edition

emotional hopeful sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Addiction, Violence, Chronic illness, Abandonment, Death, Death of parent, and Alcohol

Moderate: Sexual assault, Misogyny, Police brutality, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Car accident, Gun violence, and Infidelity

Minor: Vomit, Suicidal thoughts, Car accident, Abortion, Blood, and Miscarriage

nickdebucci's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

men are terrible lol.
i most enjoyed the plots concerning the core four siblings and, later, their plus-one. you'd think they be the majority of the plot, but there are a lot of subplots that have little-to-no bearing on the main storyline, and i understand wanting to make this gigantic party with all these interesting people feel more alive, but after a while i stopped caring and just wanted to skip to the Rivas. it was overall pretty good though
book cover discussion: the British one is so much better than that of the United States, like the pretty sunset/fire (👀) colors, the serif font. unfortunately it doesn't carry over perfectly to the square aspect ratio for the audiobook.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/injury detail, Sexual content, Blood, Death of parent, Drug use, Abandonment, Addiction, Alcohol, Infidelity, Drug abuse, Alcoholism, and Grief

Moderate: Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Emotional abuse, Sexual harassment, Blood, Violence, Child abuse, Cursing, and Death

Minor: Body shaming, Abortion, Adult/minor relationship, Medical content, Vomit, Car accident, Fatphobia, Fire/Fire injury, Gun violence, Miscarriage , and Police brutality

madison1239's review

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Death, Grief, Addiction, Alcohol, Emotional abuse, Death of parent, and Mental illness

Minor: Abortion

eviecanactuallyread's review

dark emotional funny reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Death of parent, Addiction, Alcoholism, and Violence

Moderate: Death

Minor: Adult/minor relationship and Body shaming

lotus440's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Alcoholism, Sexism, Abandonment, Alcohol, Death of parent, Misogyny, Toxic relationship, and Drug use

Moderate: Sexual harassment, Domestic abuse, and Police brutality

violetsonata93's review

emotional funny sad

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

A great book. Well worth a read. I enjoyed the characters and themes, the flashbacks and play by play of the night. It made me feel a lot. The ending kind of disappointed me though, which is mostly why I couldn't rate it as high as Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug use, Abandonment, Alcohol, Chronic illness, Death, Grief, Alcoholism, Death of parent, and Sexism