Reviews tagging 'Adult/minor relationship'

The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina by Zoraida Córdova

3 reviews

thewildmageslibrary's review

4.0

This story was really intriguing! I had no expectations going in and it really caught me up.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Toxic relationship, Death, and Infidelity

Moderate: Death of parent, Sexual content, Child death, Racism, Pregnancy, Stalking, Grief, Adult/minor relationship, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Animal death

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

msradiosilence's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense 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? It's complicated

4.25

I really enjoyed this book! The plot was easy to follow, even as it doubled back on itself. The one thing I didn’t enjoy as much as the rest of the book was the last 40 pages. A lot happened, and everything wrapped up sooooo quuuuickly. It felt a little rushed, and I wish a book that liked to play around and take it’s time would do that to the very last page. Now for spoilers!

I absolutely called the star being Mar’s dad as soon as she found the photo. And when Bolivar kept coming up, I also called him being the big bad. The book was still enjoyable, though, even when I was expecting the ending.

As for the last 40 pages, the deaths of Tatinelly and Mike were…super out of nowhere. And it all happened so quickly. Penny and Felix and the others at least got a few pages, and their funerals were talked about. Tati and Mike died in two pages and then got buried on a third and that was the end of it. Tati deserved better.

Also that last fight seen was a little confusing? It’s great that Mar came into her power and whatnot but the ending really was BOOM Tati’s death BOOM talking to the ghost great grandmother BOOM Mar’s father BOOM Bolivar revealed BOOM back at Four Rivers BOOM climatic battle scene THE END. For a book that made the characters wait SEVEN YEARS for anything to happen, it just felt very rushed. I wish Córdova would’ve slowed it down a bit.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Cursing, Sexual content, Pregnancy, Infidelity, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Alcoholism, Death, Death of parent, Child death, and Suicide

Minor: Animal death and Body horror