Reviews tagging 'Confinement'

The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina by Zoraida Córdova

14 reviews

mels_reading_log's review

adventurous emotional funny mysterious medium-paced

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

5.0

I’m in love with the Montoya family this book filled with secrets, mystical happenings and one huge crazy family!! The story follows the offspring of Orquidea Divina Montoya after her death, as they try to figure out the truth behind her secretive past and how it is still out to get them.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Child death, Confinement, Alcohol, Blood, Death, Grief, Infidelity, and Pregnancy

Minor: Racism and Sexual content

marissasa's review against another edition

emotional mysterious medium-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

4.5

This book is a wonder of a generational family story filled with magic and love. I really enjoyed the alternating timelines and perspectives which built the story up from present day and slowly revealed more about Orquidea's past and why her family is the way it is now. The writing was stunning especially when it highlighted the magical realism of miracles like

flowers blooming from skin, vines rising from the earth, a skeleton smoking a cigarette, and a door at the bottom of a lake.

I was immersed in this book and its main characters, although I do wish the book was a bit longer to give more attention and development to some of its side characters as well. The themes of generational trauma and the ties that run deeper than blood that bind us to our families were really well explored and I loved seeing the cousins protect each other without a second thought.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Infidelity, Abandonment, Child death, Confinement, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Alcohol, Toxic relationship, Death, Body horror, Fire/Fire injury, and Grief

melanieripple's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Blood, Confinement, Death of parent, Toxic relationship, Body horror, Infidelity, Sexual content, and Cursing

Minor: Fire/Fire injury, Child death, and Stalking

nozycozy's review

emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

RTC

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Child death, Confinement, Death, Cursing, and Grief

chasingpages1's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense 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? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Blood, Body horror, Child death, Death of parent, Grief, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, and Abandonment

Moderate: Confinement and Infidelity

Minor: Alcohol, Animal death, Emotional abuse, Kidnapping, Pregnancy, Racism, Self harm, and Stalking

madmantha's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense slow-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? Yes

5.0

Absolutely loved this book. I highly recommend seeing if your local library has the audiobook as well. 

I’ve now reread it multiple times and enjoy it more and more each reading. It’s such a poetic and circular story. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Abandonment, Confinement, Fire/Fire injury, Pregnancy, Stalking, and Body horror

Moderate: Infidelity, Emotional abuse, Sexism, and Sexual content

Minor: Animal death, Car accident, Genocide, Outing, Chronic illness, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Sexual harassment, Alcoholism, Ableism, Classism, Confinement, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Toxic relationship, Kidnapping, Police brutality, Pregnancy, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Animal cruelty, Cursing, Deadnaming, Deportation, Gun violence, Self harm, Stalking, Terminal illness, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Racism, Religious bigotry, Incest, Misogyny, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Cultural appropriation, Fatphobia, Fire/Fire injury, Hate crime, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Child abuse, Child death, and Emotional abuse

brokenbodybitch's review against another edition

4.5

low spoon review;

• i liked the way the magical realism was done; it was not only interesting but I think done well/realistically?
• ^ add on kinda; I liked the elements of the flowers and the way those hinted at what was going on 
• the family dynamics were super interesting; the 'current' generation of the family was a hot mess, and in the best way it was very much the -big wealthy family with the inheritance holder who is kinda pissing everyone off- vibes
  the story line with her husbands was interesting but I have to admit it did start to seem like just a lot was going on when the stuff with the star and the 'ring master' dude father story line was going on, again done well but like...it was a lot of things at once
• it does have a circus in it though and to my knowledge it was done pretty tastefully but, I am not educated enough on the history of the circus and mistreatment of people [specifically disabled people] to have a valid comment on how it was done [I know some things but not enough to be confident in how it was done] - although there was one comment about a 'circus oddity', in this case it was referring to a  magical being so 🤷🏼 I don't know
• the pacing was a little funky for me but that is mostly preference; it jumps back and forth between POV kind and time lines so it was a bit confusing at times but, if you normally don't struggle with this it will not be an issue, because for how much it jumped... it wasn't that bad  

my content warnings are not thorough as so much happened, I can guarantee I'm prob missing a few  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Toxic relationship, Pregnancy, Confinement, Infidelity, Body horror, Death, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Abandonment, and Fire/Fire injury

circus? I have heard of mis treatment of people - specifically disabled people because of the circus and I am not educated enough on the history that to know if it was ok or not - there was one comment about a 'circus oddity', although in this case it happened to be referring to a magical being so 🤷🏼 I don't know

tajosima's review against another edition

emotional hopeful mysterious reflective medium-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

3.75

I’m not a fan of magical realism, but even I enjoyed this so I guess it says something about how good it is!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual content, Abandonment, Racism, Death of parent, Infidelity, Fire/Fire injury, Kidnapping, Toxic relationship, Grief, Death, Child death, Pregnancy, and Confinement

stevie's review

emotional mysterious 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Blood, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Xenophobia, Violence, Toxic relationship, Sexual content, Sexism, Racism, Murder, Kidnapping, and Confinement

meliroo's review

adventurous mysterious

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Infidelity, Toxic relationship, Sexual content, Pregnancy, and Child death