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horsesarecreatures · 11 months

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Book review - The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina by Zoraida Córdova

This is a magical realism/fantasy book that centers around the mysterious matriarch of a large family when she summons them to her funeral to collect their inheritance. Born in Ecuador, Orquídea Divina travels on foot with her second husband and Garbo the rooster to Four Rivers, Texas, escaping someone or something she will not tell anyone about. Four Rivers has been barren of any rivers since the 1800s, and is a decaying almost-ghost town. Yet, Orquídea senses that there is a faint pulse of magic there. Overnight, the house she will live in the rest of her life appears, and its portion of the valley flourishes with life. Everything Orquídea needs seems to appear, to the consternation of the locals who start suspecting she is a witch. But however prosperous she and the valley appear, there is a streak of bad luck that follows. Each of the four husbands she has in Four Rivers dies, as do many of her children. And Orquídea cannot talk about certain things or leave the protection of her property.

As the years pass, all of Orquídea‘s remaining children and grandchildren leave the valley. Frustrated by her evasiveness about her past, her warnings without explanations, and her seemingly bizarre behavior, most of them become estranged from her. But one day, all Orquídea ‘s relatives receive an invitation to her funeral. Interested in the prospect of an inheritance, they all come. They are shocked to find that the house and valley has entered into a state of decay. Thick vines initially prevent them from entering the house. When they finally get in, Orquídea is transforming into a tree.

Orquídea leaves the house and valley to one of her granddaughters, Marimar. Everyone else gets magical seeds, to be planted immediately for their own protection. When she “dies,” the family prospers for several years. Then, one by one, something seems to go after them and kills them off. Cousins Marimar, Rey, and Tatinelly decide to travel to Ecuador to try and discover Orquídea’s secrets and what they have to protect themselves from.

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I’d give this book 5/10 stars. There were some things I really liked about it, and other things I found frustrating. It started pretty slow and it was hard to connect with the characters at first. Then the pace of the book and the characterization of the family later improved. As far as the writing goes, some parts were really whimsical and other parts were unnecessarily crude. The storyline as a whole was very creative, but there were some small things that were either left unfinished, or didn't resolve in a way that made sense to me.

#The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina #Zoraida Córdova #book #fiction #magical realism #fantasy #bookblr #book review

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books-to-add-to-your-tbr · 9 months

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Title: The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina

Author: Zoraida Córdova

Series or standalone: standalone

Publication year: 2021

Genres: fiction, fantasy, magical realism, horror, paranormal, contemporary

Blurb: The Montoyas are used to a life without explanations. They know better than to ask why the pantry never seems to run low or empty, or why their matriarch won’t ever leave their home in Four Rivers, even for graduations, weddings, or baptisms...but when Orquídea Divina invites them to her funeral and to collect their inheritance, they hope to learn the secrets that she has held onto so tightly their whole lives. Instead, Orquídea is transformed, leaving them with more questions than answers. Seven years later, her gifts have manifested in different ways for Marimar, Rey, and Tatinelly’s daughter Rhiannon, granting them unexpected blessings...but soon, a hidden figure begins to tear through their family tree, picking them off one by one as it seeks to destroy Orquídea’s line. Determined to save what’s left of their family and uncover the truth behind their inheritance, the four descendants travel to Ecuador...to the place where Orquídea buried her secrets and broken promises and never looked back.

#the inheritance of orquidea divina #the inheritance of orquídea divina #inheritance of orquidea divina #inheritance of orquídea divina #zoraida cordova #zoraida córdova #standalone #2021 #fiction #fantasy #magical realism #horror #paranormal #contemporary

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jvzebel-x · 11 months

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"How do you fight a thing that believes it owns you? How do you fight the past? With gold leaves and salt? With silence? With new earth beneath your feet? With the bodies, the hearts of others? With hearts that are tender and bloody, but have thorns of their own? With the family that chooses you?"

x. "The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina", Zoraida Córdova

#The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina #Zoraida Córdova #📚#this book was absolutely phenomenal. like everything else ive read thus far from Córdova lmao.#(not so fun fact: i have an ex named jacob cordova&just thinking the name w/o context brings back the smell of menthol smoke LMAO)#anyway magic realism+generational trauma were the two big central flavours to the story&i adored it all. :')#also it involved ppl growing roses+orchids from their bodies as physical manifestations of magical inheritance.#which is just like. my entire dream lmao i want a flower living on me permanently. 😭🌹💐

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yaworldchallenge · 2 years

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🇪🇨 Ecuador

Region: South America

The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina

Author: Zoraida Córdova

336 pages, published 2021

Original language: English

Native author? Yes

Age: Teen-Adult

Blurb:

The Montoyas are used to a life without explanations. They know better than to ask why the pantry never seems to run low or empty, or why their matriarch won’t ever leave their home in Four Rivers—even for graduations, weddings, or baptisms. But when Orquídea Divina invites them to her funeral and to collect their inheritance, they hope to learn the secrets that she has held onto so tightly their whole lives. Instead, Orquídea is transformed, leaving them with more questions than answers.

Seven years later, her gifts have manifested in different ways for Marimar, Rey, and Tatinelly’s daughter, Rhiannon, granting them unexpected blessings. But soon, a hidden figure begins to tear through their family tree, picking them off one by one as it seeks to destroy Orquídea’s line. Determined to save what’s left of their family and uncover the truth behind their inheritance, the four descendants travel to Ecuador—to the place where Orquídea buried her secrets and broken promises and never looked backed.

Alternating between Orquídea’s past and her descendants’ present, The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina is an enchanting novel about what we knowingly and unknowingly inherit from our ancestors, the ties that bind, and reclaiming your power.

Other reps:

Genres: #magical realism #family #contemporary #travel

My thoughts:

Ah, the premise for this sounds so interesting. I want to see!

Review to come.

Bookshop.org link | Kindle link

#ecuador #ya world challenge #bookblr #new books #The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina #zoraida córdova #magical realism #family #contemporary #fantasy contemporary #travel #south america

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astreamoflight · 2 years

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Tatinelly would never be a painter, a writer, a celebrity, a scientist. She didn’t want to be any of those things, and that was okay. Some people were meant for great, lasting legacies. Others were meant for small moments of goodness, tiny but that rippled and grew in big, wide waves. Tatinelly might have been ordinary, but she was not weak.

#the inheritance of orquídea divina #zoraida cordova #books #currently reading #booklr #adult booklr #emma reads

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tabileaks · 3 months

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sageblogsthings · 3 months

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anyone have any good book recs that blend litfic and specfic really well? ideally with fantasy vibes, and bonus points if there’s a magic system that directly impacts the plot or is an allegory for plot elements/character backstories

#i use the terms ‘litfic’ and ‘specific’ very loosely #but just smth that has the prose of litfic w the worldbuilding of specfic is really what i’m itching for ig #i finished reading ‘a study in drowning’ recently and it was SO GOOD and had such gorgeous prose #but i want prose that is Even Weirder yknow?#pump the metaphorical language up to eleven i love that shit #two of my top fave books ever are the binding by bridget collins #and the inheritance of orquídea divina by zoraida córdova if that helps explain the vibes i love #i would also LOVE more magical realism recs if anyone wants to share those as well!#sage rambles

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betterbooksandthings · 2 years

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“There is no denying it, witch mystery books are absolutely enchanting. I want my books to open with an unexplainable phenomenon. Finally, I want to be lead down paths with enticing red herrings and given an ending with a twist I never saw coming but is so clear in retrospect. While the witchy world building feeds my fantasy obsession, the powerful plots keep me guessing. It is my simple but correct opinion that witch mystery books are simply fantastic. Whether it is a murder or just a general mystery, when you add magic into the mix, you can guarantee my attendance.

In witch mystery books, witches might become involved in detective work to solve a case, or they may keep their day-to-day work but need to follow a series of clues to save the world. Either way, these witches are solving a problem that must be solved. For me, the overall stakes of the case do not really matter. I just want to be invested in the problem and shocked at the end reveal. The books have all the fun of a mystery with all the tools available to magic users. Who doesn’t want to be reading minds, talking to ghosts, and uncovering the secret workings of hidden magic to discover clues?”

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jbbartram-illu · 1 year

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After failing to do so for the last two years, I’ve gone through my books-read for the year & compiled a list of my favourite reads!

While doing this I also discovered that I’d missed putting four entire books on my master list that all should have been in my best-of list, so here’s the final top 22 (in no particular order)…

Matrix - Lauren Groff

My Dark Vanessa - Kate Elizabeth Russell

Echo - Thomas Olde Heuvelt

The Kingdoms - Natasha Pulley

The Waiting - Keum Suk Gendry-Kim

Nightbitch - Rachel Yoder

The Glass Hotel - Emily St John Mandel

These Ghosts Are Family - Maisy Card

Greenwood - Michael Christie

Ghost Wall - Sarah Moss

A Master of Djinn - P. Djèli Clark

What is Home, Mum? - Sabba Khan

The Women of Troy - Pat Barker

The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina - Zoraida Córdova

Fevered Star - Rebecca Roanhorse

Blackfish City - Sam J. Miller

Just Like Home - Sarah Gailey

The Book of Form & Emptiness - Ruth Ozeki

A Prayer for the Crown-Shy - Becky Chambers

The Galaxy, And the Ground Within - Becky Chambers

Stormsong - C.L. Polk

Soulstar - C.L. Polk

If you want to look at all the books I read/re-read this year, you can see my entire messy googledoc list here!

Turns out that being absolutely terrible at managing a library holds list + feeling obliged to finish almost all the books I take out = reading the most I've ever read in a year (Total was also helped by a visit to the used bookstore in the town closest to my cottage + buying a huge stack of British mystery novels to devour during my time up north)??

Also, I'm always looking for book recommendations! What were your favourite reads of 2022? Are there exciting books you know are coming out in 2023/any books that you've got on your list for the new year (new or old pubs)? Please tell me them!!

*illustration at the top there is by me, from the book that I finished illustrating back in the summer...hopefully I'll have an idea of when that's coming out soon!

#booklist #books 2022 #things i read #top...22?#when you read almost 90 books in a year it's impossible to narrow it down to a top 10 turns out #artblog #not actually artblog but i want it in that tag for reasons

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ladyeglantine · 4 months

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2023 Year in Review/Writing and Hobby Goals 2024

Another end of a year, beginning of another. My greatest achievement this year was buying a duplex! Other than a pipe leak that the house greeted me with my first few weeks in, this place is perfect for me. Though future renovations have to wait til I save more up again, I'm more than content with this home and this space I can truly call mine.

Physical/mental health wise, it's been up and down. While changing jobs last year has overall been for the better for managing my anxiety, the last few months of the year triggered anxiety spikes again (things building and building on top of each other, both internally-caused and job-caused; still so easy for me to just push it down and not deal with the negative feelings in a healthy, accepting way). I finally thought I'd gotten my sleep back in a better, regular pattern during the summer, but then it slid back again in the fall. My migraines continue to pop up, my stomach has become more sensitive, and my weight more of a concern especially on my back and knees, all of which is frustrating to deal with, but at least nothing major or any medical emergencies this year (though this was the year Covid finally got me, whee!). I'm hoping with some health/diet changes I'm making, and exercises that I'll be doing, that that will help.

Writing wise, I posted 14,662 words, with between 8,000 - 10,000 words on unposted works, so just about at my 25,000 word goal. Most of which is for the game that came out of my left field for me and grabbed me by my fandom feels, Baldur's Gate 3. Writing for my two playthrough OCs, Tav (my high Elf Bard) and Sienna (Drow resisting Durge) and Gale of Waterdeep, has been such a joy and comfort (especially during my anxiety spikes), that I haven't felt since Ellana and Blackwall and Shepard and Garrus. I felt the ease and creative drive to write again because of BG3 and the Gale romance and I couldn't be more grateful for it. In total, I posted four ficlets for Tav/Gale, two Ellana/Blackwall ficlets (1, 2), and one Jane/Garrus ficlet (1). While I did work a bit more on re-outlining and planning my original fiction, the next year will likely be the year of Baldur's Gate 3 and My Time at Sandrock fics.

I met my reading goal of 20 new books at exactly 20 (technically I read 21 but it was one I'd read before, Inkheart). Favorites included the The Radium Girls (Kate Moore), The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina (Zoraida Córdova), She Who Became the Sun (Shelley Parker-Chan), A Forgery of Roses (Jessica Olson), and River of the Gods (Candice Millard). And of course, we have more T. Kingfisher with Illuminations and Paladin's Grace.

I did complete a few games from my 2023 list, A Plague Tale - Requiem (loved) and Borderlands - The PreSequel as well as continuous My Time at Sandrock and Disney Dreamlight Valley play. While I did play many a remastered version of games I hadn't yet played such as BTPS, the Metro series, and Uncharted - The Lost Legacy, it was also the year of surprises. Baldur's Gate 3 I vaguely knew about before its full release, but has now become my newest gaming obsession. Indie games such as Pentiment, Escape Academy, Beacon Pines, Dorf Romantik, Jenny LeClue, Wayhaven Chronicles Book III, and Stray Gods were also ones I very much enjoyed. And of course, how can I forgot the relaxing power of PowerWash Simulator (though there's a very good chance the town of Muckingham will be reclaimed by nature at some point :P). And that's nothing to say of the games I have in progress that have engaged me, namely Cyberpunk 2077 and I Was a Teenage Exocolonist.

Now on to my primary writing and hobby goals for 2024!

2024 Primary Writing Goals:

25,000 words

Tav (Bard High Elf)/Gale and Sienna (Drow resisting Durge)/Gale ficlets (Baldur's Gate 3)

Builder/Owen (My Time at Sandrock) ficlets

A Surprise Visit (post My Time in Portia main quest; Builder/Aadit)

Inheritance (original fiction planned trilogy)

2024 Primary Hobby Goals:

Books:

Read at least 20 new books, with focus on fantasy and non-fiction

Play the following games:

Continue playing and finishing Cyberpunk 2077 and Phantom Liberty

Continue playing and finishing I Was A Teenage Exocolonist

Horizon Zero Dawn and Horizon Forbidden West, Ghost of Tsushima, and Life is Strange - True Colors (this will finally be the year for these!)

Syberia series (1-3, The World Before)

Continue playing/re-playing My Time at Sandrock, Disney Dreamlight Valley, Dysmantle, and Baldur's Gate 3

Other hobbies:

Nature photography

Puzzles and puzzle books

Music and video editing

Music (flute, guitar, and piano)

Besides joy in the little things, I'm planning to find towns or places I can go to in a day drive's distance throughout the year. And to continue practicing kindness towards myself as well as others <3

#writing and hobby goals #Lady Eglantine Ramblings #cw: anxiety #cw: health #cw: weight

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saturdaynightghostclub · 8 months

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Ok so I have some book recs (reader's advisory is also part of my job as a library tech). Book recs: Sourdough by Robin Sloan, Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy, Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel, Olga Dies Dreaming by Xochitl Gonzalez, and The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina by Zoraida Córdova. I have more recs lmk if you want something more specific. Also, I added you on StoryGraph 😄

Omg hey fellow library tech! We should talk!

Thank you thank you thank you, I’ll put these on my TBR—I work with a lot of teenagers and a LOT of older adults, so I like this variety!

You’re the best, mwah 💋

#yooooo library babes #love this love the solidarity

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beingstacey · 9 months

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Tag nine (9) people you'd like to know better

I was tagged by @carpe-mamilia Thank you <3

Last song: November by Gabrielle Aplin (I've liked her for a long time but I've been really into her again lately, I love the English Rain album).

Currently watching: Randal and Hopkirk (Deceased), Im watching on itvX. I found out there was an episode I'd never seen. (Episode 17).

Currently reading: The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina by Zoraida Córdova.

Current obsession: Making beaded bracelets. I've made a few hundred over the summer.

I lowkey tag: @amazingstacey @catamelon @bethanyactually @jenndoesnotcare @livesbetweenpages and anyone who wants to do this and say I tagged them :)

#Tag

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mxgyver · 10 months

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Nine or so people you want to get to know better!

I was tagged by the lovely Anna! @joaquinwhorres

Last song: Evergreen by PVRIS. so stoked for their new album coming out especially based on all the singles they've put out

Currently Watching: Nothing really 🙃I don't have any kids, but sometimes you just gotta watch Bluey (also since Ted Lasso is over, I get you Anna)

Currently Reading: I'm trying (keyword: trying) to read Lessons in Chemistry and The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina

Latest obsession: if it's not obvious enough, the absolute love of my life, himbo of my heart, Jamie Tartt 🥰

I'm tagging anyone who wants to do this!

#thanks anna! 💙#tagged #tag games

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magickpumpkin · 1 year

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The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina | Zoraida Córdova

A story filled with ghosts, magic, starlight, toxic love, a dysfunctional family with secrets, and a zombie rooster named Gabo! This was an epic fantasy about a family who receives magic as their inheritance when their grandmother invites them to her funeral. However, seven years later, the magic has come with a cost - someone is beginning to pick off members of the Montoyas family one by one.

With bravery and determination, the family has to push away their differences and band together to find out the history and secrets of their grandmother - Orquídea Divina - if they wish to fight back against this unknown enemy.

When I was reading this book, I most definitely thought of the movie Encanto but if it was made for adults. Although I loved the book as a whole, I would just say I would've preferred if the ending of the book was a little bit more flushed out. (What can I say - I wanted to know more about how the family was doing after everything they learned and experienced!) But other than that, I had a magical time reading the story and learning more about the past of Orquídea Divina and her upbringing in Guayaquil, Ecuador, and how the choices she has made in the past have come back to haunt her and her family.

My Rating: 5/5

#Fantasy #Paranormal #Magical Realism #fiction #book review #bookstagram #bookbookbook #books about magic #books and reading #favorite books #zombie rooster #a really good book #Orquídea Divina #booksbooksbooks #bookworm #reading #booktok #booklr

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qqueenofhades · 2 years

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To bounce off the previous anon's ask, what is your favorite literary genre? Have you read/re-read any good books recently? What is a book (fiction and/or non-fiction) you feel everyone should read?

I am currently reading The Light Ages by Ian Macleod, which I swear up and down that I read as a teenager and spent a long time trying to find again, but which I don't actually remember at all. I'm pretty sure that this was one of the books which first got me into social-commentary steampunk as a genre, so yes. The books next on the list are The Stardust Thief by Chelsea Abdullah, The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina by Zoraida Córdova, and Perdido Street Station by China Miéville.

Books that I have on pre-order and are both scheduled to be released in August include Husband Material by Alexis Hall (sequel to Boyfriend Material which is one of my favorite books, a gay fake-dating romcom that always makes me laugh my ass off), and Babel: Or The Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution by R.F. Kuang (author of the Poppy War trilogy), which could not possibly be more up my alley if they had designed it in a lab. It is set in a magical 19th-century Oxford and incorporates aspects of The Secret History by Donna Tarrt and Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke, both of which are also some of my favorite books, while featuring a Chinese protagonist and exploring racism, linguistic and cultural imperialism, and why the British Empire sucks. It comes out on August 23, which is the day before my birthday, so yes, happy birthday to me.

As you can probably tell, therefore, my favorite genre is well-written literary fiction, feminist, queer, racially and culturally diverse fantasy and sci-fi, space operas and sprawling speculative-fiction sagas, historical fantasy (especially written by women of color, since I almost never read straight white male fantasy authors for, uh, many reasons) and reimagined classics. I will try almost anything if it looks interesting and/or funny (one of the quickest ways to make me lose interest is for a book to have no sense of humor at all and/or take itself way too seriously), but I have too much stuff on my list to stay with it if it doesn't grab me.

A few books not already mentioned that I think more people should read, whether because they are Serious Literature that is worth experiencing, they are good and I enjoy them, they were formative for me as a youth, or some combination of all these things, include:

The Odyssey, trans. Emily Wilson

Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie

The Historian, Elizabeth Kostova

Reamde, Neal Stephenson

Circe, Madeline Miller

The Bartimaeus Trilogy (The Amulet of Samarkand, The Golem's Eye, Ptolemy's Gate), Jonathan Stroud

The Priory of the Orange Tree, Samantha Shannon

Red White and Royal Blue, Casey McQuiston

The Mask of Mirrors and The Liar's Knot, M.A. Carrick

These are all fiction (much of my nonfiction reading is related to historian work), but I also tend to enjoy narrative nonfiction such as that of Erik Larson or Rachel Maddow. Overall, I read between 50-100 pages every night, occasionally more, but rarely less. I had a long period where I could afford neither the books nor the brainpower, as a broke and overworked PhD student, so I have been going a little hog-wild ever since.

#anonymous #ask #bookblr #book recs

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rockislandadultreads · 1 year

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Book Recommendations: Magical Realism

When We Were Birds by Ayanna Lloyd Banwo

The St. Bernard women have lived in Morne Marie, the house on top of a hill outside Port Angeles, for generations. Built from the ashes of a plantation that enslaved their ancestors, it has come to shelter a lineage that is bonded by much more than blood. One woman in each generation of St. Bernards is responsible for the passage of the city's souls into the afterlife. But Yejide's relationship with her mother, Petronella, has always been contorted by anger and neglect, which Petronella stubbornly carries to her death bed, leaving Yejide unprepared to fulfill her destiny.

Raised in the countryside by a devout Rastafarian mother, Darwin has always abided by the religious commandment not to interact with death. He has never been to a funeral, much less seen a dead body. But when his ailing mother can no longer work and the only job he can find is grave digging, he must betray the life she built for him in order to provide for them both. Newly shorn of his dreadlocks and his past and determined to prove himself, Darwin finds himself adrift in a city electric with possibility and danger.

Yejide and Darwin will meet inside the gates of Fidelis, Port Angeles's largest and oldest cemetery, where the dead lie uneasy in their graves and a reckoning with fate beckons them both. A masterwork of lush imagination and immersive lyricism, When We Were Birds is a spellbinding novel about inheritance, loss, and love's seismic power to heal.

The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina by Zoraida Córdova

The Montoyas are used to a life without explanations. They know better than to ask why the pantry never seems to run low or empty, or why their matriarch won’t ever leave their home in Four Rivers - even for graduations, weddings, or baptisms. But when Orquídea Divina invites them to her funeral and to collect their inheritance, they hope to learn the secrets that she has held onto so tightly their whole lives. Instead, Orquídea is transformed, leaving them with more questions than answers.

Seven years later, her gifts have manifested in different ways for Marimar, Rey, and Tatinelly’s daughter, Rhiannon, granting them unexpected blessings. But soon, a hidden figure begins to tear through their family tree, picking them off one by one as it seeks to destroy Orquídea’s line. Determined to save what’s left of their family and uncover the truth behind their inheritance, the four descendants travel to Ecuador - to the place where Orquídea buried her secrets and broken promises and never looked back.

The Storyteller’s Death by Ann Dávila Cardinal

There was always an old woman dying in the back room of her family’s house when Isla was a child...

Isla Larsen Sanchez’s life begins to unravel when her father passes away. Instead of being comforted at home in New Jersey, her mother starts leaving her in Puerto Rico with her grandmother and great-aunt each summer like a piece of forgotten luggage.

When Isla turns eighteen, her grandmother, a great storyteller, dies. It is then that Isla discovers she has a gift passed down through her family’s cuentistas. The tales of dead family storytellers are brought back to life, replaying themselves over and over in front of her.

At first, Isla is enchanted by this connection to the Sanchez cuentistas. But when Isla has a vision of an old murder mystery, she realizes that if she can't solve it to make the loop end, these seemingly harmless stories could cost Isla her life.

The Women Could Fly by Megan Giddings

Josephine Thomas has heard every conceivable theory about her mother's disappearance. That she was kidnapped. Murdered. That she took on a new identity to start a new family. That she was a witch. This is the most worrying charge because in a world where witches are real, peculiar behavior raises suspicions and a woman - especially a Black woman - can find herself on trial for witchcraft.

But fourteen years have passed since her mother's disappearance, and now Jo is finally ready to let go of the past. Yet her future is in doubt. The State mandates that all women marry by the age of 30 - or enroll in a registry that allows them to be monitored, effectively forfeiting their autonomy. At 28, Jo is ambivalent about marriage. With her ability to control her life on the line, she feels as if she has her never understood her mother more. When she's offered the opportunity to honor one last request from her mother's will, Jo leaves her regular life to feel connected to her one last time.

The Measure by Nikki Erlick

Eight ordinary people. One extraordinary choice.

It seems like any other day. You wake up, pour a cup of coffee, and head out.

But today, when you open your front door, waiting for you is a small wooden box. This box holds your fate inside: the answer to the exact number of years you will live.

From suburban doorsteps to desert tents, every person on every continent receives the same box. In an instant, the world is thrust into a collective frenzy. Where did these boxes come from? What do they mean? Is there truth to what they promise?

As society comes together and pulls apart, everyone faces the same shocking choice: Do they wish to know how long they’ll live? And, if so, what will they do with that knowledge?

#fiction #magical realism #fantasy #new books #library books #book recommedations #reading recommendations #book recs #reading recs #TBR pile #tbr #to read #booklr #book tumblr #book blog #library blog

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