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emakay's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
funny
inspiring
mysterious
fast-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
Content Warnings
Moderate: Sexual content
wai's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
mysterious
reflective
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
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Grief, Infidelity, and Stalking
Moderate: Sexual content, Child death, Domestic abuse, Alcohol, and Violence
Minor: Blood and Suicide
mochi21's review against another edition
dark
funny
hopeful
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
5.0
This book was magical. I recommend this for fans of Addie Larue! (Though I really preferred this Inheritance, I think they were really similar in some ways)
I'm honestly going to miss hanging out with the Montoyas and I'd love to see this adapted into a movie.
I'm honestly going to miss hanging out with the Montoyas and I'd love to see this adapted into a movie.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content
brittshaw_p's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
fast-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
Evocatively beautiful story. Comprising of a nonlinear timeline, family drama, a quest, and magic, this book will haunt me for days - months - years. 100% recommend!
Content Warnings
Moderate: Abandonment, Sexual content, and Infidelity
literarybookishness's review against another edition
adventurous
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
5.0
Thank you so much Atria Books for gifting me an ARC in exchange for my honest opinion!
I'm aware that The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina is a standalone, but how much should I beg for Zoraida Córdova to reconsider?
This book was magical and written very gently. Words picked out carefully.
Córdova made sure we felt like we gained a new family. We grieved with them, cheered with them, laughed with them.
For a moment, and a moment being 322 pages, you felt like you were a part of their family. Joining their adventure and wishing for their happy ending.
I felt like I was floating through the pages, not flying. I was gently, but rapidly, floating.
But beside that, this book was eerie. Breathtakingly thrilling.
At some point a thought crossed my mind: Zoraida Córdova must have a magical computer or pen. Everything She writes turns into a beautifully curated story.
I must sound very vague now, but that's how reading this book feels. That's all I can really say about it.
Once you start reading it, the story won't let you go. It will live in your mind, rent free, for a while.
Reading this book was an experience I will remember. This isn't just a five star book. This is a book I'll randomly think about, pulling it from my bookshelf to just flip through it.
Rereading this, will most likely give me the same feelings as I got when I read it now. On a sunny August in 2021.
Orquídea Divina Montoya left a mark on not only her descendants, but on the readers too.
But...
That's just Orquídea being Orquídea.
P.s. Where's that film deal at?
"The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina" comes out on September 7th.
I'm aware that The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina is a standalone, but how much should I beg for Zoraida Córdova to reconsider?
This book was magical and written very gently. Words picked out carefully.
Córdova made sure we felt like we gained a new family. We grieved with them, cheered with them, laughed with them.
For a moment, and a moment being 322 pages, you felt like you were a part of their family. Joining their adventure and wishing for their happy ending.
I felt like I was floating through the pages, not flying. I was gently, but rapidly, floating.
But beside that, this book was eerie. Breathtakingly thrilling.
At some point a thought crossed my mind: Zoraida Córdova must have a magical computer or pen. Everything She writes turns into a beautifully curated story.
I must sound very vague now, but that's how reading this book feels. That's all I can really say about it.
Once you start reading it, the story won't let you go. It will live in your mind, rent free, for a while.
Reading this book was an experience I will remember. This isn't just a five star book. This is a book I'll randomly think about, pulling it from my bookshelf to just flip through it.
Rereading this, will most likely give me the same feelings as I got when I read it now. On a sunny August in 2021.
Orquídea Divina Montoya left a mark on not only her descendants, but on the readers too.
But...
That's just Orquídea being Orquídea.
P.s. Where's that film deal at?
"The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina" comes out on September 7th.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Toxic relationship
Moderate: Sexual content and Death
farransmith's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
mysterious
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
3.25
Content Warnings
Moderate: Alcohol, Abandonment, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Fire/Fire injury, and Sexual content
Minor: Abandonment and Grief
aeeklund's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
emotional
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
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
5.0
I devoured this book. Ravenously. It was dark and rich and knowing and full. The descriptions of the plot—of a family invited by its matriarch to attend her funeral and receive their inheritance, of those family members manifesting gifts (or not) years later, of their generations starting to fall at the hands of a mysterious figure and their quest to understand why taking them back to the birthplace of that matriarch—hardly begin to do this story justice. The jacket copy, magical as it is, is the sparest frame upon which a truly transformative experience of a novel is woven, alchemized.
Zoraida Cordova’s first adult novel is a breathless, magical story of falling stars and roses blooming from bodies, transmutation into moonstone and softly speaking fireflies, the planting of seeds borne from bodies and vines erupting from the ground in stark defense of outrage or intrusion.
This book spans decades, generations, continents. It tours Europe with a circus and puts down roots in a secluded valley. It purifies with fire and it rebuilds from ash.
It studies silence and screaming and whispers and song, art and cooking and writing and loving, loss and gain and bargaining and settling, love in all its many and varied forms, some truer than we let ourselves see and some elaborate lies we tell or are told.
And the women. Women strong and weak, vulnerable and stubborn. In denial, in acceptance, in all their nuanced, many-faceted glory. I loved these characters and the histories they spun, entangled together like the roots of the orchids, laurels, and ceiba trees they all channel or reflect.
This book was transporting. And important. And so, so lovely that I am aching for it, even now having crossed its expanse. Read this.
Zoraida Cordova’s first adult novel is a breathless, magical story of falling stars and roses blooming from bodies, transmutation into moonstone and softly speaking fireflies, the planting of seeds borne from bodies and vines erupting from the ground in stark defense of outrage or intrusion.
This book spans decades, generations, continents. It tours Europe with a circus and puts down roots in a secluded valley. It purifies with fire and it rebuilds from ash.
It studies silence and screaming and whispers and song, art and cooking and writing and loving, loss and gain and bargaining and settling, love in all its many and varied forms, some truer than we let ourselves see and some elaborate lies we tell or are told.
And the women. Women strong and weak, vulnerable and stubborn. In denial, in acceptance, in all their nuanced, many-faceted glory. I loved these characters and the histories they spun, entangled together like the roots of the orchids, laurels, and ceiba trees they all channel or reflect.
This book was transporting. And important. And so, so lovely that I am aching for it, even now having crossed its expanse. Read this.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Cursing and Toxic relationship
Moderate: Child death, Child abuse, and Sexual content
Minor: Animal cruelty and Panic attacks/disorders
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