Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas

146 reviews

birdie770's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional inspiring medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Death of parent, Death, Child death, and Blood

Minor: Car accident, Deportation, and Dysphoria

rachelgreenreads's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful mysterious 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? No

4.5

This book was so sweet!! It was a lovely celebration of diverse Latinx identities, as well as transness and queerness. The plot was fun and mysterious, although a bit predictable. I loved that the book covered some challenging topics, while still feeling like real conversations between teens. For example, I loved that as Yadriel struggled to be accepted as a brujo, Julian challenged the gendered nature of the brujx powers, and whose approval and acceptance were valued above others. 

It also gave Encanto vibes in that way: balancing tradition and progress, and older generations taking responsibility for the harms that occur as a result of their power structures

(in the case of Tío Catriz)

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Overall a really great read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, and Transphobia

Moderate: Violence, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Deadnaming

purplepickle's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, and Murder

Moderate: Dysphoria, Transphobia, Alcohol, Blood, Cursing, and Deportation

Minor: Animal death, Deadnaming, and Injury/Injury detail

thattinyone's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful lighthearted mysterious tense

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Death of parent, Grief, Murder, Transphobia, and Violence

Minor: Deportation, Self harm, Alcohol, Cultural appropriation, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Deadnaming, and Dysphoria

tangleroot_eli's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

I spent the whole epilogue of this book crying. Then I just laid there staring at the sky, not really thinking anything, just... being. This is a beautiful book, and I'm so, so glad to have read it.

And, you know, at first "everyone lives" felt like a pulled punch of an ending. Surely, in a book literally about priestexes of death, someone has to die for everything to work out. But the more I think about it, the more I realize that, no. Thomas chose the exact right ending. In a world where queer and trans characters, especially those who are also people of the global majority, die more often than they live, and where, let's face it, real life isn't working out much better for queer and trans people, a book where the queer characters not only live but triumph and flourish and show the cishets a thing or two? Yeah. That's exactly the ending this book needed.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Blood, Death, Murder, Transphobia, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Deadnaming, Animal death, Dysphoria, and Medical content

Minor: Body shaming and Fatphobia

wlreed312's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful 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? No

3.5

This is probably a case of I'm not the target audience for this book, because while I enjoyed it I didn't love it. There was a lot about it I did love, including the way Julien consistently champions Yadriel. The representation is wonderful, the family dynamic is excellent, and there are bits that made me smile so much it made my face hurt.

But a lot of the plot was just...OK for me. The villain (I guessed very early on who it was) was underdeveloped and I felt a little underwhelmed in the end. I also wasn't a fan of the way the mystery part of the plot was just sort of abandoned for a bit. I think it makes sense in terms of teenage boys but there was a good size chunk where I was going "What about Miguel?" And there were times when the word choices used for things took me completely out of the story. Ultimately an enjoyable read, but not as great as I thought it would be. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Death of parent, and Transphobia

Minor: Child abuse, Deadnaming, and Homophobia

immovabletype's review against another edition

emotional 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Grief, Death, and Murder

Moderate: Dysphoria, Medical content, Transphobia, and Deadnaming

Minor: Child death, Cultural appropriation, Classism, Animal death, and Deportation

_nem_'s review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious reflective sad 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? It's complicated

4.5

Rep: Trans ftm, gay & Latinx main character. Gay, trans mtf and Latinx side characters.

The book got off to a bit of a slow start but by the end I was desperate to know what was going to happen next. It was slightly confusing with the Spanish sprinkled into the dialogue but there were mostly explanations provided and you could still follow what was happening in the story. 

Overall I loved this book as the characters were so well fleshed out and they felt so familiar. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Grief, Death, Injury/Injury detail, and Gore

Minor: Dysphoria

bashsbooks's review against another edition

adventurous 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? No

5.0

OMG I love this book! Yadriel & Julian are such great characters, loveable without being too perfect. Julian especially is an ideal bad-boy-softie character that I just adore. I also deeply enjoyed the amount of Spanish in this book (I feel like I learned some new words) and the drawing on Latin culture for the paranormal fantasy aspects. Bonus points for things not being completely hunky-dory for Yadriel as a trans person, but also for the narrative not being bogged down with only his struggles.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death of parent, Grief, Religious bigotry, Death, Cursing, Transphobia, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child death, Deportation, Racism, Xenophobia, and Classism

Minor: Animal death, Gun violence, Medical content, Alcohol, and Deadnaming

-The religious bigotry is in the context of a fantasy religion wherein there is a strict gender binary that has to be followed. Functionally, it mirrors real-world religious bigotry, but it does not draw on one specifically.

lupabianca's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring lighthearted relaxing medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood and Transphobia

Minor: Injury/Injury detail and Deportation