Zoraida Cordova's The Inheritance of Orquidea Divina
This was a magical realism sort of story, about the mysterious matriarch of a family who invites her many children and grandchildren to her home to receive their inheritance, because she’s about to die. But really she turns into a tree, and various magical things happen to her family (the POV characters are two of her grandchildren, who both end up with roses growing out of their bodies). I loved the first half of this! But then the action shifts to seven years later, when things are going wrong, and they have to investigate their grandmother's past to find out the source of … all this. And the story of the past is not very interesting? I was here for the characters checking out low budget museums in comic book stores and resurrecting dead relatives to get answers, but it just wasn’t super satisfying in the end. B+, I guess?
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A review copy was provided by the publisher. This book will be released on September 7th.
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