Reviews tagging 'Gun violence'

Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas

27 reviews

breadwitchery's review

adventurous emotional 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Transphobia, Blood, and Grief

Moderate: Deadnaming, Domestic abuse, Racism, Violence, Kidnapping, and Death of parent

Minor: Animal death and Gun violence

taleofabibliophile's review

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, Transphobia, Violence, Grief, and Murder

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

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

stardewrally's review

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring 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? It's complicated

4.75

This book is such an important story about learning to accept yourself without having to leave your family, culture, and heritage behind. The strength of this book is its hopefulness and the message that you deserve to be yourself even if others may not understand. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood

Moderate: Violence

Minor: Gun violence

emily_mh's review

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

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

pastelkerstin's review

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

Moderate: Racism, Xenophobia, and Death of parent

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

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

therainbowshelf's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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

Yadriel's family Has been able to see and deal with spirits for generations. He's coming of age, and is determined to join their important work, but first he must prove to everyone that he's a boy and that being transgender doesn't pose a problem to his powers. I greatly enjoyed this book filled with spirits, magic, romance, and Hispanic Culture. The characters are great fun, and I really enjoyed seeing how the story played out. This is a great October read, but it's fine for any other time of year too.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Homophobia, and Transphobia

Moderate: Blood

Minor: Deadnaming, Gun violence, and Medical content

Teen homelessness (especially from LGBTQ+ familial rejection), mentions of teen gang involvement, death of a parent, death of a friend, body dysphoria

jude7's review against another edition

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Transphobia, Violence, and Blood

Minor: Gun violence