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emakay's review against another edition
- 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
Moderate: Sexual content
wai's review against another edition
- 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
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
- 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
I'm honestly going to miss hanging out with the Montoyas and I'd love to see this adapted into a movie.
Graphic: Sexual content
brittshaw_p's review against another edition
- 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
Moderate: Abandonment, Sexual content, and Infidelity
literarybookishness's review against another edition
- 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'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.
Graphic: Toxic relationship
Moderate: Sexual content and Death
farransmith's review against another edition
- 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
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
- 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
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.
Graphic: Cursing and Toxic relationship
Moderate: Child death, Child abuse, and Sexual content
Minor: Animal cruelty and Panic attacks/disorders