Reviews tagging 'Grief'

Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas

265 reviews

grets_reads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective tense 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? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Death of parent, and Death

Moderate: Violence, Blood, Transphobia, Grief, Cursing, Kidnapping, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Deportation, Dysphoria, Abandonment, and Confinement

madamenovelist's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective sad 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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Blood, Death, Grief, Death of parent, Gore, Murder, Medical trauma, Medical content, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Transphobia, Ableism, and Cursing

kirstenf's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring sad 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, and Transphobia

Moderate: Deportation, Fire/Fire injury, Death of parent, Dysphoria, Deadnaming, Grief, and Murder

Minor: Alcohol, Outing, Cultural appropriation, and Lesbophobia

melist6's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny mysterious sad fast-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: Blood, Sexism, and Racism

Moderate: Deportation, Transphobia, Death, Dysphoria, Murder, Violence, and Grief

Minor: Child abuse, Animal death, and Deadnaming

folded_between_pages_of_books's review against another edition

funny hopeful informative mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abandonment, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Blood, Deadnaming, Death, and Grief

mattyb's review

adventurous dark emotional tense fast-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

Graphic: Blood and Death

Moderate: Kidnapping, Violence, Grief, Dysphoria, and Transphobia

Minor: Medical content, Physical abuse, Death of parent, and Deportation

binreads's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious sad 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

The StoryGraph account actually recommended this book to me on tiktok!!

If i could give this a 1000000000000/10, I would. 

I've had this sitting on my shelf for a while and since it is spooky season, I thought it was finally the perfect time to read. I loved every second of it. The trans/latin experience and representation was so refreshing to read. 

I enjoyed the characters so much, the 3 musketeers, Yadriel, Maritza and Julian. Yad was endearing, Martiza was hysterical and Julien was the heart. The pacing was perfect, never felt too slow or rushed.

Spoilers ahead, beware!

  I'm kinda impressed with myself because I had a feeling Tio Catriz was bad halfway through. Mostly because I was thinking, why is this dude being overly nice? 

Especially when he caught sight of Yad's portaje, I knew something was up. Why wouldn't Catriz tell his own brother about Yadriel, wouldn't he be worried or concerned? If he really wanted to help Yadriel, why wouldn't he speak with him about it? 

Then he was always coming and going so much throughout the book. What I DIDN'T guess, until it was literally happening, was that he had taken Miguel and Julien. That ending was WILD!!!

I saw there's a sequel in the works and I'm super excited to read it!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Transphobia, Grief, Blood, and Death

Moderate: Racism and Deportation

aerietta's review against another edition

adventurous 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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Death

Moderate: Transphobia, Death of parent, Bullying, Gaslighting, and Grief

Minor: Physical abuse, Car accident, Child death, Deadnaming, Medical content, Alcohol, Animal death, Cultural appropriation, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Murder, and Kidnapping

psydneigh's review against another edition

emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

Great coming of age YA book. Will definitely read more from Aiden Thomas in the future!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Death of parent, Grief, and Deadnaming

megj23's review against another edition

fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Blood, Grief, and Murder

Minor: Death of parent