Reviews tagging 'Sexual content'

The Inheritance of Orquidea Divina by Zoraida Córdova

89 reviews

notapenguin's review against another edition

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Infidelity, and Sexual content

Moderate: Child death, Racism, Xenophobia, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and Abandonment

Minor: Pregnancy

ghostlyprince's review against another edition

hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Infidelity, Grief, Stalking, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Colonisation, and Classism

Moderate: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Car accident, Pregnancy, and Deportation

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Racism, Slavery, Blood, and Alcohol

chris_reads's review against another edition

adventurous funny mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Infidelity, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Death, Slavery, Religious bigotry, Pregnancy, Abandonment, and Alcohol

Minor: Drug use and Racism

firedew's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Violence

rexpostfacto's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny mysterious reflective medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Death of parent

Moderate: Blood, Abandonment, and Alcohol

Minor: Physical abuse and Sexual content

mels_reading_log's review against another edition

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

Minor: Racism and Sexual content

mrtvavrana's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense 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

4.0

I wanted to give this book 5 stars, but the random explicit sex scenes including teenagers really put me off. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Domestic abuse

ailiscr32's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful 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? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief

Minor: Bullying, Child death, Death, Homophobia, Infidelity, Misogyny, Racism, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Abandonment

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

elly29's review against another edition

mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

2.0

Oof, this was a hot mess. I’m kinda sad it’s my first completed read of 2024. It kept on trying to be the Ecuadorian “1100 Years of Solitude” Lite™️, complete with magical realism. But, it just felt all over the place: the magic system was haphazard, the giant cast of characters poorly fleshed-out,  we zigzag from past to present, and it started out achingly slow but then wrapped up far too fast. I’d argue that Tatinelly’s and Rey’s roles could have been consolidated into one character, and the parts about the family condensed. Or, to give everyone adequate treatment, it could have been 8x longer. The ending was okay, but I have so many unanswered questions, though. (Poor Mike Sullivan.) I admit I was skimming, but it felt like the relevant parts (like Pena and Marimar talking about the door at the bottom of the lake, for example, and how the fish get in) hadn’t been referenced earlier in the novel. Or, that it was lazy writing when Tatinelly spread her father Felix’s ashes in the river — I didn’t care! Or that Ana Cruz intercepted them in Guayaquil felt fake, like a setup, and so nefarious, that I didn’t trust Ana Cruz for the next few chapters. It was too easy and convenient. Ugh, this was not a novel for me.

I mean, sure, it’s a generational “saga” where we learn that toxic masculinity is Bad, and toxic men with power is one of the most dangerous foes one can face. Anything else? Yeah… it felt like a halfway decent travelogue for Ecuador, and I know that there are 444 steps to the top of the hill in whatever city they were in.

This felt so much like that Erin Morgenstern sequel, “The Starless Sea.” Pretty writing, but boy did the story not make sense to me.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual content

Minor: Violence