Reviews tagging 'Xenophobia'

Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas

44 reviews

sophiesmallhands's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Deadnaming, Murder, and Violence

Minor: Abandonment, Bullying, Death of parent, Outing, and Xenophobia

troisha's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Death

Moderate: Death of parent, Grief, and Transphobia

Minor: Abandonment, Alcohol, Body horror, Car accident, Cultural appropriation, Deadnaming, Dysphoria, Fire/Fire injury, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Racism, Violence, Xenophobia, and Child abuse

nerdmaryart's review against another edition

emotional inspiring mysterious medium-paced

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

3.75

Personally fantasy is not my taste, but even with that this book is really funny, creative, sensitive. Also, it's really good with "show don't tell" and every character feels real, the brujx society is well structured and it feels real, i say this as a Latina witch


[SPOILERS]
Still, i think the ending confrontation with the uncle could have been more long and dramatic, the middle it's a little slow and tedious (for my personal taste) and if this was part of a series with a bigger villian i think i would enjoy it a little more, since the uncle didn't feel threatening enough for me.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Transphobia, Xenophobia, and Racism

Minor: Bullying and Blood

kayle39's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Murder, and Blood

Moderate: Transphobia and Animal death

Minor: Deadnaming, Xenophobia, and Physical abuse

taleofabibliophile's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful informative mysterious tense 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Deadnaming, Death, Grief, Murder, Transphobia, and Violence

Moderate: Blood, Child abuse, Cultural appropriation, Death of parent, Homophobia, Physical abuse, and Xenophobia

Minor: Abandonment, Animal cruelty, Car accident, Child death, Cursing, and Gun violence

water_violin's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious slow-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Death, Murder, Racism, and Transphobia

Minor: Bullying, Death of parent, Grief, Medical content, Physical abuse, Terminal illness, Violence, and Xenophobia

chaosbumblebee's review against another edition

adventurous funny mysterious fast-paced

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

4.25

Very cute, very interesting, though I thought the writing could have been of a higher quality.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Transphobia, Homophobia, Xenophobia, and Violence

queenfury's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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? Yes

5.0

"Growth isn't a deviation from what we've done before, but a natural progression to honor all those who make this community strong."

I cried, like, six times.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, Transphobia, and Deadnaming

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Religious bigotry, and Violence

Minor: Xenophobia, Police brutality, Child abuse, and Confinement

pastelkerstin's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful sad tense medium-paced

• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

On the one hand, the whole murder mystery was incredibly predictable, with grandma asking whether anyone has seen the plot device multiple times and there only being one person who has an obvious motif for using said plot device.
On the other hand I love these characters and they have all my uwus, so. 4 stars. A good time.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Cursing, Death, Grief, Kidnapping, Murder, Transphobia, and Violence

Moderate: Death of parent, Racism, and Xenophobia

Minor: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Car accident, Child abuse, Child death, Deadnaming, Drug use, Gun violence, Medical content, Physical abuse, and Self harm

Fire, misgendering, gender dysphoria, mentions of deportation, mentions of gang violence, racist discrimination by police

bencaroline's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, and Grief

Moderate: Animal death, Child death, Confinement, Death of parent, Gore, Hate crime, Homophobia, Suicide, Terminal illness, Violence, and Transphobia

Minor: Kidnapping, Medical content, Police brutality, Religious bigotry, Trafficking, Xenophobia, and Deadnaming

"Terminal illness" is a good approximation for the magical condition of this world where one can temporarily continue 'living' as a ghost-type spirit. Treated extremely compassionately in the text. I am editing this after looking at the other content warnings; I would contend that the transphobia in this book is moderate at most. To me (a trans person), this is first and foremost a book about trans joy--no that that would negate extreme transphobia, but to me the depictions of trans acceptance and euphoria are WAY more present in the book than the negative bits, and I want to say that. There are no graphic depictions of transphobic violence, and iirc only brief descriptions of familial rejection or bigotry; Yadriel's family/community has a lot of latent transphobia, BUT, they seem to be working towards embracing his identity.