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Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor by Layla Saad
5.0
Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas
2.0
DNF'ed around 45%
Y'all, I wanted to like this book but I just could not get into it. There were a few things I did like, namely the amazing LGBTQ+ and Latinx representation, but the things I liked kind of stop there.
It's unfortunate but this book was almost unbearable to read. The plot moves like you're wading through honey and the sentence structure drove me insane. Not to mention the sheer amount of unnecessary info-dumping.
My partner read this before me and also gave it a low score but managed to get through it. Around page 25-30 I had already figured out who the villain was, what the villain's role in the ghost boy situation was, how he was doing it, and what was gonna happen at the end. It's an extremely predictable book. Despite figuring everything out in the first 50 pages of the book, I kept going hoping I could fall in love with the story or the characters, but both are just like wet, soggy cereal.
I skimmed ahead and when the beginning of each chapter just looked like a reiteration of a scene I had already read, I decided it was time to stop.
As an aside, if I had to read the sentence "Laughter bucked in Yadriel's chest" one more time, I was about to buck the book off the balcony of the apartment.
Am I glad it exists and do I sincerely hope that someone much MUCH younger than me finds comfort and identity in this book? Yes, absolutely. Do I think anything about qualifies as a well-written book or well-told story? Not at all.
Y'all, I wanted to like this book but I just could not get into it. There were a few things I did like, namely the amazing LGBTQ+ and Latinx representation, but the things I liked kind of stop there.
It's unfortunate but this book was almost unbearable to read. The plot moves like you're wading through honey and the sentence structure drove me insane. Not to mention the sheer amount of unnecessary info-dumping.
My partner read this before me and also gave it a low score but managed to get through it. Around page 25-30 I had already figured out who the villain was, what the villain's role in the ghost boy situation was, how he was doing it, and what was gonna happen at the end. It's an extremely predictable book. Despite figuring everything out in the first 50 pages of the book, I kept going hoping I could fall in love with the story or the characters, but both are just like wet, soggy cereal.
I skimmed ahead and when the beginning of each chapter just looked like a reiteration of a scene I had already read, I decided it was time to stop.
As an aside, if I had to read the sentence "Laughter bucked in Yadriel's chest" one more time, I was about to buck the book off the balcony of the apartment.
Am I glad it exists and do I sincerely hope that someone much MUCH younger than me finds comfort and identity in this book? Yes, absolutely. Do I think anything about qualifies as a well-written book or well-told story? Not at all.