Malibu Rising By Taylor Jenkins Reid: Chapter Analysis

In the book Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid, the author describes the setting by sharing a flashback of the protagonists home town. Nina, the protagonist, finds joy in her hometown because of “how ants found their way to [the] kitchen counters, pelicans sh*t on the ledge of the deck” (Reid 14). Another factor that makes her hometown significant is the way a “tiny spark in the dry desert wood can grow to a blaze and run wild, burning bright orange and red” (Reid 4). Other things I would expect to see there are many animals such as birds roaming around on the sand of beautiful beaches. I would expect the weather to be amazing most times but sometimes be as gloomy as a worn-out kid in the backseat of a long car ride.

Chapter 2

In chapter two of Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid, the author develops a character by introducing Hud Riva for the first time on page twenty. He is the brother of Nina, Kit, and Jay and Reid starts off the chapter by comparing him to his siblings. Reid explains that Hud Riva was “short where his siblings were tall, stocky where they were tithe, who spent the summer getting sunburned as they grew

In the novel Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid, Nina goes through much heartache because her husband Brandon Randall decides to leave her for Carrie Soto. On the day of the party that Nina throws every year, Brandon pleads to talk to Nina and wants her to take her back. He decides to make an announcement in front of all of Nina’s guests which leads everyone to yell “‘Take! Him! Back! Take! Him! Back!’” (Reid 198). In this moment I would rush up to Nina and tell her not to listen to anyone pushing her to make the wrong decision. This is the wrong decision because Brandon took advantage of his relationship with her and broke the trust between the two of them. Just because he promises now that he won’t ever be disloyal again does not mean that he will keep his