Malibu Rising

Have you ever read a book that you wished, almost from the start, you'd never started and that you regretted reading at all, much less to the end? A bad taste in your mouth? Yep, that's how I felt about this book. I did not like any of the characters as human beings, and (a bit of a spoiler alert) none of them grew much over the course of almost four hundred pages. None of the characters seemed to have a moral center, and I can see all of them ten years from now still acting in much the same ways, focused on their own selves and deeply lost, clueless about how they got to this point.