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Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas

16 reviews

kbairbooks's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

I enjoyed this book so so much. I love the diversity, I love the Mexican culture, I love the food, I love story, I love the characters, I love everything about the narrator. They were absolutely the most perfect person to take on this job and I really loved the interview between the narrator and author at the end of the audiobook. I think McMillan did an incredible job with the audiobook and choosing the narrator and for sponsoring Aiden to bring the story to life. I can’t WAIT to see where Yadriel and Julian go and what they do. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Blood, Death, Death of parent, Dysphoria, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Medical content, and Murder

Minor: Alcohol, Bullying, Car accident, Child death, Deadnaming, Drug use, and Transphobia

mryshells's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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

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

Minor: Alcohol, Animal death, Bullying, Car accident, Child death, Cultural appropriation, Cursing, Drug use, Dysphoria, Medical content, Physical abuse, Racism, and Vomit

emily_mh's review against another edition

emotional hopeful slow-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

4.0

This book definitely shone in how real the characters and their relationships with one another felt, as well as how rich and descriptive the writing was, especially when it came to showing Latinx religion and culture. However, for about 60-70% of this book I wasn't really looking forward to picking it back up when I put it down for the day. I think this was because the pacing of this portion of the book was VERY slow (due in part to repeating information), and in the beginning it was quite info-dumpy. For this reason, I was looking at giving this a 3.5 stars but the ending really got to me.

While the initial conflict of the ending felt anticlimactic,

the resurrection conflict totally gripped me

. The ending also had me completely taken by Yadriel and Julian's relationship and how fiercely they loved each other. Finally, I found the epilogue really moving. These three elements cemented this book as a 4 star. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Transphobia, and Blood

Moderate: Death of parent, Grief, Deadnaming, Racism, Murder, and Violence

Minor: Body shaming, Animal death, Cursing, Alcohol, Drug use, Abandonment, Fire/Fire injury, Gun violence, Car accident, Body horror, Vomit, Ableism, and Medical content

chartas's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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: Violence

Minor: Transphobia, Homophobia, and Drug use

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

skudiklier's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny mysterious fast-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

I loved this book so much! It's so charming and entertaining, and I absolutely fell in love with the characters. This book balances so many things so well, and I'm very glad I got to read it. I hope there's a sequel soon! (Note: I'm only saying that because the author said he might write more; the ending is entirely complete and satisfactory.)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Violence, Transphobia, Kidnapping, Homophobia, Grief, Death, Deadnaming, Cursing, Child death, and Bullying

Moderate: Drug use, Medical content, Suicide, and Vomit

Minor: Animal death and Animal cruelty