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Cemetery Boys (Cemetery Boys, #1)

Aiden Thomas

Start date: October 1, 2023

Finish date: October 31, 2023

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Sep 17, 2025 Jenn rated it liked it

Shelves: young-adult, fantasy, new-author-to-me, paranormal-supernatural, lgbtq, instalove-alert, high-school-days, 3-star-reads, ghostly-spirits, read-in-2025

Closer to 3.5

This is one of those books that has been on my radar for awhile. The premise had me intrigued, trans latinx MC - yes please. There were so many things that had me excited to read this one. And honestly, it really was enjoyable. There were just a few things that kind of made me go, eh, and I couldn't really rate it up to 4.

What drew me to this story was the culture and the mystery. Yadriel's cousin goes missing while on assignment in the graveyard and no one can locate his body, but ...more

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Oct 07, 2020 Tbirdplanstoread rated it really liked it

Shelves: own-hard-back, z-2020-read

For a debut novel, this was pretty good. It struggled with some redundancy in the first half that was pretty frustrating to get through and I had already figured out what was going on before I reached the halfway mark, but the second half was a lot better and I ended up really enjoying the end.

I absolutely loved the characters, especially Julien. The story was amazing and I loved the concept and the love and acceptance between Julien and Yads was beautiful.

I would love to read another book with ...more

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Sep 03, 2022 Elizabeth rated it really liked it

Shelves: family, paranormal, coming-of-age, magical-realism, lgbtq

Yadriel is part of the brujx community (literal translation of brujo/-a is sorcerer.) Brujos have the capability to raise the dead. Brujas have the capability to heal. Yadriel is trans and yearns to be acknowledged as a brujo despite his family's reluctance on the break of tradition, believing that his biological sex at birth was the defining factor.

After his cousin goes missing, Yadriel makes attempts to prove himself as a brujo and in the process falls in love with a ghost boy.

There were parts ...more

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Jan 10, 2022 Shelley rated it it was amazing

I really enjoyed this book!
I think it was a breath of fresh air to have cast a transgender boy as the powerful lead of this book.

Yadriel is determined to become a brujo even if his family doesn't agree. His father believes since he was born a girl he cannot be accepted by Lady Death as anything other than a bruja. But Yadriel and his friend Maritza perform the ceremony anyway and it works, and the spirit they summon is the school's bad boy Julian who doesn't even know he is dead.

As Yadriel help ...more

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Mar 04, 2021 Margaret rated it it was amazing

Shelves: lgbtq, own-voices, 2021

Yadriel and Maritza are BEST friends. I absolutely loved the interaction between these two, and the support and love they have for each other. It was hard, bit I'm sure so realistic, to see the trials Yadriel has with his family dead-naming him and not acknowledging his gender.
there is a mystery with missing people that needs solving, and Yadriel tries to help. When Yadriel finds a ghost while looking for the missing man, he begins to get to know Julian. too bad Julian is a ghost.
I really enjo ...more

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Nov 25, 2021 Kylara Jensen rated it really liked it

Shelves: ghosts-psychics-etc, lgbtqaetc-characters

This book was one where I read in 2 sitting but the 2 sittings were 6 months apart.

I liked it but it was stressful because I didn't know if there would be a happy ending. ...more

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